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by mmastrac 732 days ago
This isn't really convincing. The P, G, R and Y are significantly different and appear in both the Quake sample and the font sample. S is significantly flatter. The cherry-picked examples are the most basic letters and likely to have parallel evolution because of the constraints of that design space.

I think it's more likely to be a hand-crafted font, inspired by the general layout of stencil letters but no more than that.

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The N is completely different; Quake has a one-piece N, the font slices it into three separate parts.
Yeah — a bunch of inspirations for this. Wouldn't be surprised if the designer was inspired by newly-released Emigre typefaces like Democratica.