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Why the PlayStation 3 used a movie font

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Brand synergy usually makes sense, unless you just lazily copy and paste your movie fonts onto your expensive electronics. Sony explicitly utilized the exact same stretched, spidery lettering from their popular superhero film franchise to stamp the name on the side of the console, ensuring it looked painfully locked into early two-thousands aesthetics.

Why the PlayStation 3 used a movie font
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