About Atari 2600 (Woodgrain)
The Atari 2600 was the home console that taught a generation what video games could be. Its front-panel woodgrain veneer — borrowed from the era's hi-fi stereos — wrapped a chip that could only paint a handful of saturated pixel colors on a CRT.
The Curio Atari 2600 system honors that contradiction: warm walnut brown beside roaring retro-CMYK reds, yellows, cyans and magentas. The Fuji-mountain logo, chunky display type, and Garamond body voice carry the 1977 Americana gravity into modern web surfaces.
- Origin
- Sunnyvale, California, USA
- Era
- Atari 2600 launched September 1977; ~30 million units sold; Atari brand ongoing through Atari VCS 2018+
- Key figures
- Nolan Bushnell · Jay Miner · George Opperman
- Movements
- 1970s home-video-game console market · Retro-gaming canon
Atari 2600 (Woodgrain) design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
BungeeHeadings
EB GaramondBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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