Modernized form of Gemscript. Certain consonants and vowels are edited for readability.
Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of Gemscript BlackThe 5x5 pixel font used for the Virtual Gremlin, an old emulator/game I wrote. The standard font for ingame text.
This font was also designed to work well with IRC clients and ASCII games (see sample).
Breaking the 5x5 grid was unfortunate but necessary in order to make legible characters in non-Latin languages.
A semi-bold Diabolicious. It is the same width and size as the original!
Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Recommended: Use with kerning turned ON!
This is a clone of DiaboliciousProxima Punch with all curves changed to angles. A more engraved look.
This is a clone of Proxima PunchPixellated version of Proxima Punch Squared.
Original size: 6pt (Use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of Proxima Punch PixelPixellated Proxima Punch. It's art deco for your ancient compy box! New smaller grid, same great taste.
Original size: 6pt. Use multiples of this value for pixel perfection. However, this one has been noted to look great at almost every smaller size. Try 7pt, 8pt, 9pt, etc. for slight variations on the look!
A style built on a tall ellipse. Bold line on the left, narrow line on the right. (The glyphs )]}¿¡ break this rule for the sake of aesthetics.)
See also: Proxima Punch Pixel
Just a doodle. Reminds me of typesetter's forms.
Every pixel of the negative space is trying to approach the letters in the positive space. But, they are repelled from the letters by a 1px border. This leads to a look that is not quite filled, not quite grunge, and not quite maze-like. The filled voids seem obviously anomalous, but can only reinforce the forms they attempt to engulf.
"Tacit Affront" is an anagram for "Artifact Font".
In school I used to hand-draw fonts wherein every letter was cut down and relied on the letters around it to form itself. This is an attempt at doing the same with Fontstruct bricks.
"Cadcutters Print" is an anagram for "Truncated Script".
Since it's a bit tough to read it unambiguously, I also consider it a very weak cipher.
Original size: 5.25px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Logo font for the fictional band "Roan City Roadslickers" from D2:ES.
This is a clone of RC DynamiteAmbigram-inspired pixel font.
Possible uses for this:
• Code/cipher (about as good as Pig Latin)
• Gibberish/placeholder text
• Making other people think you've taken leave of your senses
• Inspiration (type something, scan visually, let words come to mind)
• Automatic writing (let what you see guide your typing)
• Monogram-based designs
• Texturing other pixel art à la Gremlin Skins
• Writing vertically so that the letters form a neat column
• Prototyping the most visually confusing roguelike game ever
• Actual ambigrams
• Having the satisfaction of knowing that anything rude you write is effectively written twice
• Whatever you'd use it for
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Original size: 12pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
See also:Four Winds
Lowercase only!
This font used to be the lowercase for Spacekapitan. I cloned Spacekapitan so I could keep this, then reworked Spacekapitan into what it is now. Then I continued working on this font to make it the best it could be, and here we see the result. It has almost nothing but 90-degree angles.
This is mostly built around a 5x5 square which makes its way into most glyphs in some way or another.
I think this would make a good companion font for "Your Quota".
This is a clone of Spacekapitan8x8 pixel art generator. It can be used to draw at any size once you understand how it works. Feel free to write your own scripts/code to automatically draw with this!
Glyphs are mapped to pixels as follows:
456789,.
wxyz0123
opqrstuv
ghijklmn
YZabcdef
QRSTUVWX
IJKLMNOP
ABCDEFGH
ABCDEFGH will make a horizontal line at the bottom edge, HPXfnv3. would make a vertical line on the right edge, and so on.
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- INSTRUCTIONS -
Type to draw! See the sample for an example of how I do it.
1 space = 1px of spacing. Use 8 spaces to start a new block and 16 spaces to start a second block which is 8px away from the first. This fine space exists to allow any sort of pixel art to be drawn within an infinitely large "canvas".
- COMING SOON -
A guide to preparing any text for PixelGen 8x8 (I'm figuring this out now!)
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If you draw something with this font, feel free to show it off in a comment. This is an unusual way to draw, but it has many unforeseen potential uses!
One form of beauty in this type of art is that your code IS the art. And, the code and art are yours to recreate and modify endlessly as you desire, all without ever having to draw, save/load files, or even touch an image editor.
Have fun!
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- PREDRAWN ART -
(To see them, copy them, scroll up and use View -> "User Input" -> Ctrl+V)
1. 8x8 Black Square: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.
2. 16x16 Black Square: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.
3. 8x8 Circle: CDEFJOQXYfgnovx26789
4. 8x8 Square Border: ABCDEFGHIPQXYfgnovw3456789,.
5. 8x8 Chessboard: ACEGJLNPQSUWZbdfgikmprtvwy02579.
6. 8x8 Sword: ABEIJKLMRSTZacghjlsu13,.
7. 8x8 Smiley Face: CDEFJOQSTUXYdfgiknoqsvx26789
8. 8x8 Rosary: DLSTUbehiklnovw356789,
9. 8x8 Cartoon Bomb: BCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnpqrstuz089,
10. 8x8 Microscope: ABCDEFGHLMRSTUVWYZaghkostwz015678
11. 8x8 Bomberman: BCFGKNQSTUVXZabcdegilnoqtvw356789,
12. 8x8 Slime: BCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRWXYZabcdefghjkmnprsuyz0178
13. 8x8 Double Stars: EGMNOTUVWXdhjpqrwxyz06
14. 8x8 Brick Wall: ABCDEFGHIMQRSTUVWXaeghijklmnoswxyz01236,
15. 8x8 Floppy Disk: BCDEFGIKLMNPQSTUVXYfgijknoqsvwy0256789
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- WORK IN PROGRESS -
A font for making hexagonal grids and maps.
You can make a map which is infinitely wide and up to 6 rows tall. This will increase to 26 rows tall once I figure out why the spacing breaks down after 6. Once this problem is solved, I'll begin adding setpieces and more tile variations!
13SEP2018: I never did figure out a way to stop the spacing from breaking down. No matter where I place the 7th row or how I alter the spacing, it's always out of place...
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- INSTRUCTIONS -
Type starting with a or A, then b or B, up through fF, to build a column.
Once the map is as tall as you want it, repeat these letters to make the next column.
Use UPPER CASE to create land/floors and lower case to create water/walls.
"A" or "a" must be present in each sequence and each letter must be in its proper place and order for the map to generate properly. Making of irregular maps is possible, but it takes some cleverness to get them to look even. This problem seems to be insurmountable, sorry!
Use six spaces to create a void with the same width as a hex...
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- MAPS TO TRY -
(Copy one, scroll up to the preview & use View -> "User Input" -> Ctrl+V)
1. Plains: ABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEFABCDEF
2. River & Pond: ABCDEFabcdEFABCDefABCDEFABcdEFAbcDEFABCDEF
3. Small Maze: aBCdeFABCDEfabcDEfABcdEfaBCDEFabcDefABCdEf
4. Honeycomb: AbCdEfABCDEFAbCdEfABCDEFAbCdEfABCDEFAbCdEf
5. Space: abcdefabcdEfabcdefaBCDefaBCDefabCdefabcdef
6. Coastline: abcdefABcdefABCdefABCDefABCDEfABCDEFABCDEF
7. Stripes: abcdefABCDEFabcdefABCDEFabcdefABCDEFabcdef
8. Broken Terrain: ABA ACDFABCDEFABEABCDEF
9: Yin Yang: AbcdefAbcDefAbcdefABcDefABCDEfABcDEfABCDEf
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Using antialiasing broke the tile arrangements in my graphics software. You may be luckier, but I recommend having both antialiasing and kerning turned OFF.
Have fun!
Bold variant of Ticketmeister.
Original size: 14.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of TicketmeisterA tear-off ticket design. I went for the slightly gaudy look which is associated with carnivals and arcades.
While making this I also got the idea for a font which looks like a 35mm reel with little scenes on each segment...
Original size: 14.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
A cipher/code used by the Kibble Cabal, a mostly animal-based team of misfits and food thieves in the game Trap Farmer Brer Brah. This code is very similar in application to the "Hobo Code" from the United States in the late 1800s. It makes a pretty good cipher, as well!
Original size: 8pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
A well-known font from Duke Nukem 3D which is used in screens, menus, and placeable ingame sprites. This font came in two versions: "big" and "small". Both versions only have uppercase, so I put the small variant on the lowercase.
Since the original was a bitmap font which used multiple colors, I stuck to drawing the outlines. This lets you color them in how you like.
The small variant has its own symbols and numerals as well; most are already in this font, replacing the empty spaces left by the big variant. (Neither one has a complete symbol set, so I merged the best ones together.)
Original size: 10.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
An attempt to produce a low-resolution pixel font which generates mazes from arbitrary strings of text. It requires the use of negative line spacing (available only to certain software) to look right without hand-editing.
The mazes it produces aren't the best, but they are definitely interesting! I might just call this a cipher and be done with it...
The "gremoji" symbols used in Virtual Gremlin. These are spoken to the player by those Gremlins who are not intelligent enough to form words, and can be used to guage the Gremlins' moods.
Original size: 21pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
A very stubborn version of "Gumshoe" which insists on its purity of design even as it handicaps itself with that purity. It has no curves whatsoever and is slightly more open than the original. All of these facts are traits of the character for whom this font is used. :D
(I know many of the serifs don't join properly with the lines. That is part of the aesthetic. It's slightly wonky - just like some royals.)
This is a clone of GumshoeThis is used in Virtual Gremlin for instances when the Gremlins/'pets' speak. Since Gremlins are literal glitch creatures and not the best at communication (and since 5x4 is a very odd size), some letters are turned and others are split. This lends the font some use as a weak cipher.
Technically, Gremlin 5x4 is also a conlang. Every glyph has associated sounds which are unique to the Gremlins speaking them. I call this conlang "Glitch English". Perhaps, now that I have this font ready-made, I can set about making a dictionary. :^)
Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
A font which appears in "Defender/Joust" (1995) on Game Boy. This font is complete within the ROM, so only the original characters are included.
This font is used for Defender's menus and gameplay.
The placement of glyphs within the individual 8x8 tiles suggests that this font is meant to be monospaced. I've squinted at this one long enough... it looks right to me! :D
Another brickswap of Marengi. This one will be programmed into actual marquee displays, some physical and some software-based. If only the glow of the LEDs could be simulated with bricks!
Original size: 11pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of Marengi