An alternate system font for the Virtual Gremlin, a software-based games prototyping system I wrote in 2016-2017. This font ended up never being used.

This was only able to be recovered due to the advent of a lucky screenshot which a friend posted online. The font was in a spritesheet which was being shown off, so I was able to FontStruct it!

How much detail can you get by expanding 3x4 to 3x5? Not a whole lot, as it turns out. Still, this is nice and readable.

Earliest version of Gremlin Cipher, a scrambled cipher. This version (V1) has no numerals. V2 had numerals and other symbols included and scrambled every glyph, but V2 is not possible to make in Fontstruct since only "space" can be used to create empty space.

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A - n
B - K
C - e
D - W
E - j
F - y
G - o
H - S
I - c
J - P
K - J
L - f
M - Y
N - I
O - G
P - l
Q - i
R - v
S - d
T - ,
U - N
V - b
W - z
X - V
Y - m
Z - R
a - x
b - U
c - g
d - q
e - '
f - h
g - a
h - !
i - C
j - X
k - A
l - .
m - B
n - "
o - M
p - Z
q - L
r - u
s - O
t - Q
u - H
v - F
w - E
x - s
y - w
z - D
. - t
, - r
! - k
? - T
' - p
" - ?

Experimental 2x4 font. Not the most legible, but maybe useful as a cipher. It requires some contextual knowledge of what you are reading for the best result.

Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

The "gremoji" symbols used in Virtual Gremlin. These are spoken to the player by those Gremlins who are not intelligent enough to form words, and can be used to guage the Gremlins' moods.

Original size: 21pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

This is used in Virtual Gremlin for instances when the Gremlins/'pets' speak. Since Gremlins are literal glitch creatures and not the best at communication (and since 5x4 is a very odd size), some letters are turned and others are split. This lends the font some use as a weak cipher.

Technically, Gremlin 5x4 is also a conlang. Every glyph has associated sounds which are unique to the Gremlins speaking them. I call this conlang "Glitch English". Perhaps, now that I have this font ready-made, I can set about making a dictionary. :^)

Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Another experimental font for texturing work. This one uses only an 8x8 grid, but since it isn't pixel art, a much greater variety of patterns is possible. Every glyph in the font repeats as a seamless texture in both directions.

See also:Gremlin Skins (pixel version)

I designed this 16x16 pixel font to facilitate texturing and dithering for pixel artists. Not every piece of art software has tools designed for texturing/dithering, and loading lots of custom brushes for the purpose can slow one's software way down as well. This font was made to attempt to solve these problems. Now you can dither, shade, and texture by typing! Every glyph repeats as a seamless texture both horizontally and vertically.

The name comes from my emulator/game, "Virtua Gremlin". Although these patterns weren't in the game (it used 9x9 tiles, not 16x16), many of the patterns here are based on that earlier work. "Skins" is a reference to graphical skins, of course. :D

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USAGE GUIDE

A-Z = textures

a-z = dithering/shading patterns

0-9 = scanlines

The rest is sort of a mishmash... I'll organize it better once I have enough glyphs to warrant a good classification system...

Have an idea for a pattern? Want to see a particular sprite or aesthetic included? Let me know :D

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Original size: 12pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Tip: View this in the Character Map so you can more easily grab and paste glyphs when designing!

See also: Gremlin Skins HD

The 3x6 pixel font from the Virtual Gremlin, an old game of mine. This font and the 5x5 font were used for most in-game text, as they're the only ones that have lowercase.

A few letters are allowed to break the resolution constraint.

The last and largest Virtua Gremlin font, used for title screens. The 13 signs of the Zodiac are in there too.

The 7x7 pixel font from Virtua Gremlin, used for headers and menu titles.

The 5x5 pixel font used for the Virtual Gremlin, an old emulator/game I wrote. The standard font for ingame text.

This font was also designed to work well with IRC clients and ASCII games (see sample).

Breaking the 5x5 grid was unfortunate but necessary in order to make legible characters in non-Latin languages.

The 4x4 pixel font from the Virtua Gremlin. This one is stylized, and was used for scoreboards and the like.

A 3x3 microfont from the Virtual Gremlin, an old game of mine. This is designed to look tiny and indistinct. Useful when writing jargon, placeholder text, or technobabble (the kind of meaningless information you'd write when drawing a newspaper or computer terminal).

VERSION HISTORY:

08 Feb 2018 - v1.0 declared finished.