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As you type, your text appears in bold red characters on white, matching how the Nintendo emblem is styled. Grab the image to keep, or get the font at no cost.
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by Garon Rossignol (Jackster3000)
Pretendo, by Garon Rossignol (Jackster3000), is a fan-made freebie copied from the Nintendo logo. No license terms were found for it, so it is not passed on here: it is got from its author. Free for posters, invites and your edits; to sell what you make with it, buy its author’s licence.
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by Omnibus-Type
Archivo Black has the heavy, tightly spaced letters of the logo, with a capital N and small letters, though its edges are plainer than the logo’s. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 41 KB
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What the font has, before you download it.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
Reference sites give conflicting accounts. Google’s AI summary claims the emblem was hand-drawn from Helvetica Condensed Black, meaning no installable typeface exists. A thread on the DaFont forum says the real font is not well known, and Fonts In Use files Nintendo products under Helvetica, Handel Gothic and Futura Condensed.
The version people fetch is Pretendo, a free release by Garon Rossignol, known online as Jackster3000, modeled on the logo. We could not locate any licensing terms for it, and since it imitates Nintendo’s protected lettering, this page does not offer it. The typeface featured here is Archivo Black, created by Omnibus-Type: dense, closely spaced glyphs, released at no charge under the SIL Open Font License. It imitates the look, but the glyphs are not the logo’s original letters.
The logo is the word Nintendo in thick, tightly spaced letters: a capital N, then small ones, in red on white inside a rounded red frame. The red usually given for Nintendo is #E60012. Its design is not capitals-only, so the designer preserves uppercase and lowercase exactly as typed.
Solid on the Logo backdrop renders your text in that red over white, with no border. Clear keeps just the red text, so you can place it over a gameplay capture. Paper places them on a paper-textured backdrop, while Glow and Outline work best over a dark background of your own, like a stream overlay.
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For the logo, Google’s AI answer says custom lettering drawn from Helvetica Condensed Black, while the DaFont forum says the real font is not well known. The same answer says the Nintendo Switch uses UD Shingo NT by Morisawa. Archivo Black is the no-cost typeface featured here.
Pretendo, the community-made imitation, appears on font aggregator sites, yet no licensing terms could be located, so we do not offer it here. Archivo Black, the typeface covered on this page, can be used in any project at no cost under the SIL Open Font License.
Canva Pro takes fonts you upload to its Brand Kit, so you can add Archivo Black from this page. The Mario logo is lettering of its own, which this page does not cover: the generator above recreates the Nintendo style.
Google’s AI answer names UD Shingo NT by Morisawa, a Universal Design gothic built to be easy to read. That lettering belongs to Morisawa rather than the emblem itself, so this page does not provide it.
Text set in Archivo Black can appear on merchandise you sell, within the limits its license grants. Nintendo’s name and emblem are protected trademarks, so any product reproducing them requires the company’s consent.
Not affiliated with Nintendo. Names and logos belong to their owners.
