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A monospaced version of Barcade Brawl that has been modified to work well as a roguelike font. Not every glyph is centered yet, but all the Basic Latin and More Latin ones are.
A few glyphs (such as #) are modified to break the matrix so that they link together. This is because these glyphs are used to form continuous walls and other structures.
Note also that this design uses a 7x7px matrix which is monospaced at 8px to create 8x7 tiles. I have placed a stray pixel on an unused glyph to make 1px of extra line spacing occur so that the final tiles are 8x8. The preview here onsite adds another px, so it looks slightly out of square. The sample below does too, because it was made before this fix was implemented.
I was working on another spinoff of this that was high-resolution rather than pixel, but since this font has the same LC and UC, I might transplant those glyphs to this font as well to make it as multifunctional as possible. That will more than double the work of making an already big font, though, so it will depend on whether this font gets used by others. A few game developers already use the original "Barcade Brawl" so there is a possibility...
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of Barcade BrawlThe definitive retro gaming font, now available to use for your gaming-related projects, without a single arcade quarter required, is here! Why stick with Press Start 2P when you can use this, especially the fact that this font has over 1000 characters? This font was originally inspired by nostalgic arcade games, such as Bubble Bobble, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Frogger, Wonder Boy, Kung-Fu Master, Punch-Out!!, Karate Champ, Burger Time, Centipede, Track & Field, Bomb Jack, and many more!
This is a clone of Super Mario Bros. NESA special Pac-Man version of the familiar Arcade Legacy font on FontStruct, given the title: PAC-MAN LEGACY! (Yes, it's even in stylized all-caps)
What's changed, you might ask? The exclamation mark (!), now based on the "!" as seen in both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man when you start up a game, and begin another maze after eating all of the Pac-Dots. If it's one thing that matters most, it's detail.
Sprint 2 was the first arcade game released by Atari in 1976 that debuted the 8-bit arcade font that many gamers know and love today. And the Atari Legacy font wishes to carry the torch as it once did back then, especially with new unicodes and glyphs. You can tell it's a font based on the golden days of gaming because of the "E". The unique "E" may seem very familiar for those who played Atari games back in the arcades, and those today who played Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection! The "?" and "!" are even sourced from Atari's Quiz Show, also released in 1976!
This is a clone of Arcade LegacyStrictly 8x16/8x8 monospaced arcade-style font inspired by Old Church Slavonic manuscripts and Cyrillic vyaz majuscules. Designed for all-lowercase body text with occasional all-caps headers, as in historical manuscripts- but works well with mixed caps.
500+ glyphs, including extensive support for accented Latin letters, world currency symbols, and custom Roman numerals, along with assorted dingbats and multiocular O scribal glyphs used in Old Church Slavonic in text referencing eyes.
Support for majuscule punctuation, more non-Latin scripts, and more extended Latin & dingbats possibly upcoming.
If you know any of the non-Latin scripts included, please let me know of any gaps/accuracy or legibility issues!
Changelog:
1.3.0 - Now with (basic) Greek support!
1.3.1 - Finished punctuation, archaic, & diacritical Greek glyphs
1.4.0 - Russian/Ukranian Cyrillic support + small dingbat additions
1.4.1 - Most Early Cyrillic glyphs added
1.4.2 - Old Church Slavonic support should be finished
Armenian support in progress...
To-do:
Bulgarian/Macedonian/etc. Cyrillic support
Armenian, Georgian, Coptic support
African, Cherokee, and Canadian Aboriginal script support
Hebrew support
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Death Brade" (aka "Mutant Fighters", 1991).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" (1990).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana, even though they're not actually used in the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the italic pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996). This font is very sparingly used in the game - apparently, just for the character names, SP/HP counters, and (partially at least) the inventory ring interface.
This font includes a near complete set of hiragana and katakana characters, as well as a wide range of special characters (such as a full set of zodiac symbols).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Jaleco's "Legend of Makai" (aka "Makai Densetsu", 1988).
This recreation includes a practically complete set of hiragana and katakana. In the original, the dakuten and handakuten are separate characters on a separate line of text - in this recreation, they have been included in their respective characters, which results in the overall line height being 11 pixels rather than 8 pixels.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Based on the game 'Xevious,' this font does not only contain small letters, but it contains a brand new small letters just related to the big ones from the original game! It also contains a small Solvalou symbol to salute to the 1982 classic! A sci-fi raster font for shooting fans, everywhere.
This is a recreation of a raster font from a real Pac-Man machine with modified symbols. Currently, it has American and some European characters. This is good enough for a retro feel, useful for gaming and might be used for personal or commercial purposes.
This is a recreation of a raster font from a real Pac-Man machine with modified symbols. Currently, it has American and some European characters. This is good enough for a retro feel, useful for gaming and might be used for personal or commercial purposes. Translated to an LED display font!
This is a clone of Namco Arcade RasterThis is a recreation of a raster font from a real Pac-Man machine with modified symbols. Currently, it has American and some European characters. This is good enough for a retro feel, useful for gaming and might be used for personal or commercial purposes. I've attempted to transform to a rounded character font. Hope you like it!
This is a clone of Namco Arcade RasterThis is a new classic 8x8 font from the future. This takes place with the numbers from the classic Atari 2600 Parker Bros. games and aesthetic futuristic letters and symbols like it's 1982. This font is written in Unicode format.
[Version 2.1]: Added "More Latin" Character Set.
[Version 2]: Fixed differences between the real font (from the NES or arcades) and the original (by me).
NES/Arcade Font.
This is a clone of NES/Arcade Font MonospaceRecreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Heavy Smash" (1993). This font contains an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's bizarre "Trio the Punch - Never Forget Me..." (1990). Includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana. Only the character present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font found in the BIOS for IGS' "PolyGame Master 2 (PGM2)" (2007 - 2011) arcade system board - used for boot warnings and settings screens.
Only the characters present in the BIOS have been included.
A 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)
Bold variant of Ticketmeister.
Original size: 14.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of TicketmeisterRecreation of the main pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
While the letters and numbers are the same as "Knights of the Round" (1991) (with the exception of the oddly modified "g", "j" and "y"), this game changes most of the punctuation/special characters, and adds a large number of extended/accented latin characters (though there is also a variant set, which isn't as complete and looks rather awful).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Knights of the RoundExpanded version of the pixel font from TAD Corporation's "Cabal" (1988). This version includes accented characters and additional punctuation/special characters not present in the original game tile set.
This is a clone of CabalRecreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996). This font is used primarily for the dialog boxes and the chapter names shown at the start of each level. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Update (August 2019): added the missing special/accented characters.