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 primary pixel font from Nintendo's "Metroid II: Return of Samus" (1991) on the Game Boy.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format for the subtle antialiasing, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a cloneRecreation of the primary pixel font from Technōs/Pal Soft's "Double Dragon II: The Revenge" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used on the title screen, options, and the level-end screens.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Wolf Team/Telenet/Riot's "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Wolf Team/Telenet/Riot's "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Valis (Genesis)Recreation of the large pixel font from Wolf Team/Telenet/Riot's "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used primarily in the intro cinematic.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from the western release of Telenet/Renovation Game's "Valis III" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in all the cinematics and end credits.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" (1991).
This font is used for the score, "You win"/"You lose"/"Bonus stage"/"Start !" messages, and the after-fight taunts.
Note that in the game, only the uppercase characters are used. In the ROM, the lowercase characters are vertically misaligned - this recreation fixes this, setting them to the same baseline as the uppercase. Apart from this change, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" (1991).
This font is used for the score, "You win"/"You lose"/"Bonus stage"/"Start !" messages, and the after-fight taunts.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Note that in the game, only the uppercase characters are used. In the ROM, the lowercase characters are vertically misaligned - this recreation fixes this, setting them to the same baseline as the uppercase. Apart from this change, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Street Fighter II (Large)Recreation of the pixel font from Imagineering/Arc Developments' "The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants" (1991) on 16bit systems (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Atari, MS-DOS).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Naxat/Compile's "Seirei Senshi Spriggan" (1991) on the PC Engine.
The game includes two sets of numerals - regular and "fancy", with extra detail on the "0", "2", "4" and "5". As the fancy version is used in-game, it's the one that was included in this recreation.
Note the addition of the "black right-pointing double triangle" (U+23E9), "black circle" (U+25CF), and the stylised "A" - which doesn't seem to be used in-game, but is likely a remnant/carry-over from Compile's "Aleste" (1988) - mapped to "greek capital letter alpha" (U+0391).
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.
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 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 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.
***SEPTEMBER 2020 UPDATE***
Some minor alterations to small letters... Additional letters coming soon...
Formerly known as "Fontality Caps Basic", this is an emulated font using letters similar to those seen in startup test sweeps of the old Midway and Williams video arcade games, such as Mortal Kombat, Narc, NBA Jam and Smash TV, among many others. The original 26-letter basic alphabet, some of the more common symbols and the numbers for the most part are replicas while the rest of them are made up to visually contour with the styles of their original parenting letters. I apologize I couldn't be any more accurate. But it's because no game as far as I know has an option in any of the tests to see a list of numbers, letters and symbols. So I had to improvise any way I could. I've been wanting a font like this but the only means of getting one as far as I know, was to make one myself!!!
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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 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 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 Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project" (1991, released in Japan as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Manhattan Project") on the Famicom/NES.
This tile set originally included only a partial set of hiragana and katakana characters - these have been extended a bit in this recreation to make it more useful, but it's still not 100% complete. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The original tile set was, oddly, also missing the latin "Q". This has been added here for completeness.
Apart from this, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.