#ad lib

The text in Donkey Kong Bananza is in Ad Lib (1961).

The letters look like they were cut out with scissors, rather than drawn with a pen or a brush, which makes it possible for the interior of a letter to be a different shape from the exterior. This style was popular in the 1960s (though the Tony's Chocolonely logo is a more recent example).

Harold Adler claimed that Ad Lib was based on custom lettering that he did for the 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse, which seems plausible based on the timing.

One of my favorite ad libs I did for a game was when I was playing a half orc bard named Daisy Bonebleeder. She wanted to be a circus ringmaster so she wore a ringmaster outfit all the time. Her father was an orc and her mother was a barmaid that she spent time with, but she also was raised by her orc family. One day our group was doing it's normal thing of making dirty jokes about something or another so my bard went "Well, whatever floats your goat". And one of the party looked at me and went "Whatever floats your goat?" So I just rolled with it.

*out of nowhere, an angel in full battle armor materializes in the same room as Mx. She's horribly confused, wings ruffled as she glances around*

"Wha... where the hell am I..."

*she hasn't noticed you yet, she's too focused on her surroundings to care who might be with her*

@hymns-for-the-heavens

Wuh- OH!!!! A new face !!! Well this will be FFFF-U-N !!!!

*Mx trots over, rolling its wrist into a bow gesture. Its also wearing the infamous “glasses with mustache combo”, grinning like a cat who just got a yogurt treat.