Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Double Axle" (1991).
As this is my 1000th font (with most of them computer/game recreations, collated for The Video Game Font Preservation Society), it's worth noting why I chose this.
The arcade game itself is rather obscure, and not very good. However, the characters are, for the most part, very "classic arcade font" - though this font does have a few notable little quirks that make it unique (the weirdly slanted "0", the "8" with its offset counters, the mix of serif and sans serif). But most of all, what really struck me about the font is the colour treatment in game - a beautiful "desert chrome" rendition that just screams late 80s/early 90s.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support.
One minor tweak I made was to the "T", which had a very odd inbalance. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Westone/Sega's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (aka "Wonder Boy V: Monster World III", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically 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 Probe Software/Image Works's "Back to the Future Part III" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
While the font includes a complete lowercase, this isn't used in the actual game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from KID/VAP's "Doki! Doki! Yūenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen" (aka "The Trolls in Crazyland", 1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the Dooyong/Atlus' "Pollux" (1991), which was also used in "Gulf Storm" (1991).
The lowercase (which was also present in "The Last Day" (1990) by the same company) is not used in the games.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Escape Kids" (1991).
Note the "greek small letter alpha" (U+03B1), "white circle" (U+25CB) and the pointing finger icon, mapped to "rightwards arrow" (U+2192).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "QuackShot Starring Donald Duck" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of a secondary pixel font from Irem's "R-Type Complete CD" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. This font is used in the cinematic intro, listing the stats for the R-9 fighter.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Silent Debuggers" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font contains an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, and positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Parasol Stars" (1991) on the NES. This version differs from the PC Engine version, introducing a few quirky characters (like the "A" and "0"). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Nintendo's "NES Open Tournament Golf" (1991) on the NES. This font is used for conversation panels and for the settings screen. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the thin variant of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "NES Open Tournament Golf" (1991) on the NES, used on the score screen at the end of each hole. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from the US version of Quest/Palsoft's "Magical Chase" (1991) on the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16. This font is used on the main menu and shop sequences. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.