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If this reaches OVER 9000 glyphs, Someone will make Artistic Alphabet with this font, this font has 64+ block elements for every glyph and Christian Munk will surprise me with that font better than 7x12 Serif! [IT TAKES ME WEEKS?, HAS SUPPORT FOR KANBUN CHINESE SYMBOLS AND JAPANESE KANA?, DOESN'T MAKE FS LAG?, BEATS OFF 7X12 SERIF?]
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Latest update: Added some writing systems (Thai is unfinished)
Modern Arcade is a condensed sans-serif typeface designed to evoke a sense of technology and modernity. Its sleek and streamlined letterforms exhibit a futuristic aesthetic, with precise angles and clean lines.
A very simple, somewhat abstract typeface in which every single character is only 3x3 pixels at most (excluding commas and semicolons). I know 3x3 fonts have been done before, like with "Tiny Pixel" and "Illegibility," but I did my hardest to refine this font to being as legible as possible.
WIP
This is a clone of IATA Runway CMiiverse stamps from NES Remix 1&2.
Since miiverse shut down, I thought it would be nice to be able to use these stamps in some other way and this is the only one I could think of. Some have been altered from the original pixel art (like Wario) and mirrored versions of some characters and the speech/thought bubbles. And yes, this took a LONG time. All rights belong to Nintendo.
VHS style font based on the JVC character generator, as seen in the JVC GR-C1 camera manual. Some tweaks for spacing and a few additional glyphs also included.
Free to use however you like. Originally created for use in the game Super VHS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2344680/Super_VHS/
A recreation of the font used on the early CRT terminals from IBM, based on this source by Marcin Wichary.
I find there is a particular charm in the crudeness of some solutions compared to subsequent iterations or other 5x7 pixel fonts (see, for example, the numerals and |C|U|Y|).
I reproduced only the characters shown in the aforelinked image, placing them in what I considered to be the appropriate Unicode place.
I tried to look for some more glyphs (comma anyone?) but failed to find reliable sources.
A retro-styled font inspired by Art Deco and classic computer fonts. Looks like something you'd see in a video game from the 1980's that's set in the 1920's. Includes over 1000 glyphs from Latin and non-Latin alphabets. Best for decoration and titles.
Credit appreciated but not required.
Based on a font identification request over at Typography.guru.
A recreation of the typeface used for the titles of the film Sneakers, evidently inspired by the MICR aesthetics, filtered through the over-the-top flair of arcade video-games graphics.
Only |J|Q|Z| are done from scratch, but most letters still needed some interpretation in order to choose what to keep as a detail and what to discard as just an artefact.
As per the samples available, it's just uppercase (plus the lonely lowercase |c|).
It is possible that the original wasn't a pixel font after all, or that the pixels weren't square, and probably it had a higher resolution than 13×13.
See More:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2131935/stf-frontal-bossing
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1303693/hi-tops
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/528017/fs_space_opera
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/391648/megaspacer
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1045906/racket_2
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1183886/highstruct
https://www.dafont.com/kamino.font
This is a clone of Daily DoubleThis is SquaredEyes57. A pixel-art font I made to use in the games I make. Every Character is within the bounds of 5x7 pixels. This is the second iteration of SquareEyes35, which was only 3x5 pixels and turned out to be way too hard to read for longer texts. I hope it can be useful for whatever you need.
This is a clone of SquaredEyes35This is SquaredEyes35. A pixel-art font I made to use in the games I make. Every Character is within the bounds of 3x5 pixels. I intended to only use uppercase, which is why lowercase is a bit low-effort. I hope it can be useful for whatever you need.
I took the line width variation of Art Deco fonts and turned it 90 degrees to create something bottom-heavy. The result looks really technological and reminds me of 1980s PC microsystems like the Sharp x86000, BBC Micro, Dragon32, and so on.
Font from the ingame marquee display of Barcade Brawl, a 2015 game by yours truly. This was made to look similar to the system fonts from old arcade boards, PC microsystems, etc. You've probably seen the fonts I'm talking about; they're everywhere and many people refer to them singularly as "the arcade font" or "the NES font".
This is 7x7 with no wasted matrix, but it looks better without monospacing since not every glyph is the same width. It also makes a decent terminal & chat font, at least for those who don't care about the case of the messages they read and write.
Feel free to use this in your games, etc.!
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
Verbossus in sans-serif!
This is a clone of VerbossusA fusion between Roman-style text and pixel art - the sort of font that might have existed in old 80s font software. It's fairly wide and verbose and is something of a colossus among pixel fonts.
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Original size: 13pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
I came up with an original high-res design, then brickswapped to turn everything into square bricks. The result sort of reminds me of Proxima Punch Pixel Squared, but less art deco and more computer-esque. It has a really old and naive look to it which could make it good for retro-terminal use.
"Buttons Foe" = "Obtuse Font". Not only is it an obtuse font in look and construction, it's reminescent of an era when computers were thought of as adversarial, magic voodoo boxes. So both the name and the anagram are equally applicable. :^)
I made a blocky, industrial sort of style, then added art deco-style line width variation. Then, a couple of tech lines here, a couple of details there, and SHAZAM! We get these 1950's-era raygun-toting space race zippity zap letters. It's a font Marvin the Martian might use...
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Original size: 7px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Fontstruct's first vacuum tube font!
This is a design inspired by Nixie tubes. Since these "tubes" are iconographic, they could theoretically represent 12AX7s, 6L6s, KT88s, or whatever tube/valve you wanted. Feel free to clone and build on this concept.
Kubasta is a monospaced pixel font designed with legibility in mind. The glyphs are easily distinguishable from one another and legible even in small sizes. It’s perfectly applicable for retro style interfaces and games.
An earlier version was created with BitFontMaker2 in 2014 and featured in Beat Cop by Pixel Crow.