Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.
See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.
The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...
Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included
Recreation of the 6px pixel font used in Nintendo's "Super Mario Kart" (1992) on the SNES. In the game, the font has a 2px spacing to account for the outline. In this recreation, I opted to just go for a 1px spacing - if you do use it outlined, make sure to add the extra pixel for authenticity.
Update Sept. 2019: added ":" and "," and fixed incorrect "Q", "V", "(" and ")"
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Video System's "Aero Fighters" (aka "Sonic Wings", 1992). This font is used for the pilot names and post-level taunts. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font Zippo Games/Rare/Acclaim's "Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power" (1992).
Note that the "&" character is wider than 8px - in the game, it uses 4 separate 8×8 tiles. In this recreation, the character width is nonetheless set to 8px, with the ampersand overlapping the following letter (usually, a space character) by one pixel.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font used in Interplay's classic "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" (1992) adventure game on the PC. It's mostly monospaced, with the exception of the unusual &, © and ® used on the splash screen and the ß from the German version. Also included are the original (fairly ugly, admittedly) extended characters from the German and French version.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Axelay" (1992) on the SNES.
Note the small triangle (U+00B7 'middot'), large triangle (U+2022 'bullet') and black circle (U+26AB).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Namco's "Splatterhouse 2" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Splatterhouse 2Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Capcom's "Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness" (1992) on the NES. This font is used primarily for the end credit sequence. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The game uses a crisp, non-antialiased version of the same font used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1989) and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" (1991) arcade machines. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary font from Jaleco's "Brawl Brothers" (aka "Rushing Beat Ran", 1992) on the SNES.
In the western release, this font is only used in the "option mode" menu, while in the japanese version it features on the title screen and main menu as well.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from SIMS' "Master of Darkness" (aka "Vampire: Master of Darkness", "In the Wake of Vampire", 1993) on the Sega Master System.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "G.I. Joe" (1992).
At its core, the game is a revised and expanded version of "Devastators" (1988), and the font is almost identical - with subtly different spacing, and a few extra punctuation marks.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of DevastatorsRecreation of the pixel font Zippo Games/Rare/Acclaim's "Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power" (1992).
Very similar to the font used in "IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II" (1989), but with a subtly modified "Q", and different punctuation and numbers.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of IronSword: Wizards & Warriors IIRecreation of the large pixel font from Extended Play Productions' "Chakan: The Forever Man" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
With the exception of the single quote/apostrophe, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Striker in the Crypts of Trogan" (aka "Stryker in the Crypts of Trogan", 1992) on the Amstrad CPC.
This font is also used for the credits on the ZX Spectrum version, but otherwise a fatter version is used anywhere else in the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Tradewest's "Super Double Dragon" (1992) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.