Khnum /ħe.'nu:m/. I've updated this font, and given it an italic version, which is available on Font Library. There are three versions: Regular, B Regular, and MS Regular. B is for Bulgarian. MS is for Macedonian and Serbian. The inspiration for Khnum came from Media SA, which was my first large-scale font created many years ago. However, I wanted this font to be a non-modular font, so I re-created it on a small-scale.
Khnum has been updated and redrawn, and is now called Hhenum, which you can get on Font Squirrel.
This is a cloneSomething that I made. Part of the Roto Family.
Currently supports:
English, Jamaican, Irish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sami (Northern), Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Esperanto
Update Log
Current version:v3.0
v0.1: Basic characters.
v0.2: Added basic punctuation.
v0.3: Added more punctuation.
v0.4: Changed letters S, s, Q.
v0.5: Added ^ and ` .
v1.0: Smoother curves, changed letters S, s, Q, R, r, K, k.
v1.1: Added Á, À, Â, Å, Ä, Æ.
v1.2: Added Ç, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ð.
v1.3: Added Ñ, Ò, Ó, Ô, Õ, Ö, ×, Ø.
v1.4: Added Ù, Ú, Û, Ü, Ý, Ÿ, Þ, ß.
v1.5: Added à, á, â, ã, ä, å, æ.
v1.6: Added ç, è, é, ê, ë, ì, í, î, ï.
v1.7: Added ð, ñ, ò, ó, ô, õ, ö, ÷, ø.
v1.8: Added ù, ú, û, ü, ý, þ, ÿ.
v2.0: Added Ā, ā, Ă, ă, Ą, ą.
v2.1: Added Ć, ć, Ĉ, ĉ, Ċ, ċ, Č, č.
v2.2: Added Ď, ď, Đ, đ, Ē, ē, Ĕ, ĕ, Ė, ė.
v2.3: Added Ę, ę, Ě, ě, Ĝ, ĝ, Ğ, ğ, Ġ, ġ, Ģ, ģ.
v2.4: Added Ĥ, ĥ, Ħ, ħ, Ĩ, ĩ, Ī, ī, Ĭ, ĭ.
v2.5: Added Į, į, İ, ı, IJ, ij.
v2.6: Added Ĵ, ĵ, Ķ, ķ, ĸ, Ĺ, Ļ, ļ.
v2.7: Added Ņ, ņ, Ň, ʼn, Ŋ, ŋ, Ō, ō, Ŏ, ŏ.
v2.8: Added Ő, ő, Œ, œ, Ŕ, ŕ, Ŗ, ŗ, Ř, ř.
v2.9: Added Ś, ś, Ŝ, ŝ, Ş, ş, Š, š, Ţ, ţ, Ť, ť, Ŧ, ŧ.
v2.10: Completed Latin Extended-A.
v3.0: Started Latin Extended-B.
A medieval pixel font created for use in the graphic adventure game "Quest For Infamy" by Infamous Quests, (C) 2012-2014. Designed for fantasy / RPG-style video games. Uppercase letters inspired by: various German Blackletter, Old English, and Uncial typefaces; "Deutsch Gothic" by James Fordyce; "1454 Gutenberg Bibel" by John H. Schmidt; "Goudy Medieval" by Mentor Type; "Black Castle MF" by Rick W. Mueller; "Two For Juan" by Nick's Fonts; and Exidy's video arcade game "Venture" (1981). Numerals inspired by various Old English and Gothic typefaces.
Latest version with technical adjustments available for download at dafont.com
What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.
The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction.
More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.
At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.
Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).
Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...