Recreation of the pixel font from Supersonic Software/Codemasters' hybrid adventure/platform game "Cosmic Spacehead" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the regular pixel font from HOT・B/Flying Edge's "Steel Empire" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used for intro animation, and on the end-of-level stats screen. The game also includes a custom compound character for "'s" (apostrophe followed by an "s") - this has not been recreated here as it lacks an appropriate unicode code point.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Super Turrican" (1992) on the SNES and "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see the (more complete) recreation for Turrican / Turrican II on the Amiga.
Only the characters presents in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy III - Fantasy World Dizzy" (1989) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
The same font is used in all subsequent "Dizzy" adventure games - "Dizzy 3 and a Half - Into Magicland" (1991), "Dizzy IV - Magicland Dizzy" (1991), "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991), and "Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1992).
Note that "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991) uses the "66" style left quotation marks (U+201C) at the start of any speech, while in all other games the "Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark" (U+201F) is used.
"Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988) already used an early version of this font, but with fewer special characters. One major difference is the single quote/apostrophe character - compared to all later games, which use a "9" style apostrophe, "Dizzy II" used a straight diagonal small one. This has been included in this recreation, mapped to "Right Single Quotation Mark" (U+2019).
Also note that the egg character - used to indicate lives in game - is mapped to "black circle" (U+25CF).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 06/2023: added the apostrophe from "Dizzy II", added the "66" style left quotation mark, and confirmed that this same font is used for the rest of the series, and on all other 8-bit platforms.
Recreation of the pixel font from NMK/Tecmo's "GunNail" (1992).
The lowercase and most of the special characters are unused in the game itself.
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 pixel font from Mix's "Dive On" (1992) on the Sharp x68000.
Slightly expanded, to include the "J", "Q", and "Z". Apart from those, only the characters used in the game have been included.
Presenting Namco's Final Lap, released in 1987 for the Arcade, and 1988 for the NES/Famicom.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sims/Tecmo/Sega's "Ninja Gaiden" (1992) on the Sega Master System.
Note the "?!" character, which has been mapped to "‽" (U+203D).
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 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 main pixel font from Jaleco's "Rival Turf!" (aka "Rushing Beat", 1992) on the SNES.
This font is used for the main menu, intro/outro cinematics, and end credits.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. A few of the katakana characters were missing in the game's tile set, so I've attempted to include custom characters in a similar style. 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.
With the exception of the few additional katakana glyphs, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Rainbow Arts/Imagineer/Factor 5's "Super Turrican" (1992) on the NES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters presents in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Contra III: The Alien Wars" (1992) on the SNES.
Note the "V" and "W", which are shifted up by one pixel and short, and the inconsistent weight of some of the characters.
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.