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Relive your retro pixelated font dreams with Retro Pixelon! Ready to use for Russian, English, Polish, French, Spanish, German and many more!
Contains sets: Basic Latin (fully), More Latin (almost fully), Extended Latin A (fully), Cyrillic (for Russian).
A little pixel font made with zero experience in less than 15 minutes. Enjoy.
If you think it could help you, I tried to put it under the most liberal license so you can freely use it or edit it for your personal and commercial projects. Don't feel the need to credit me.
Also see my "pixel joy" for a better but slightly bigger pixel font.
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 font used in Super Mario 64 when speaking to people or reading signs. These characters are mostly derived from the game and used to recreate the font. Glyphs such as the asterisk and curly bracket are made with modified or existing characters used in-game (star instead of asterisk, curly bracket made from parenthesis, etc.)
The theme of this font is thunderous. Thunder is the sound that lightning makes; therefore, thunder does not happen without lightning. I combined these two together, focusing on ideas such as sounds waves, sharp/smooth lines, size of my letters (big and small), and fleetingness as thunder comes and goes. I want it to have a lot of variety as you never know what to expect from thunder.
My font theme is systematic, I aimed to make a font that was precise and but also referenced technology in the patterns of a motherboard and the pixelated style. The dots also help form the illusion of curves.
My font was inspired by the way pixels have been used by other designers in the late 20th century, in particular, Peter Saville’s Original die-cut sleeve album cover for New Order’s Blue Monday single, Wim Crowel’s new alphabet used by Brett Wickens in Joy Division’s compilation album Substance cover. The font was modeled on digitalized letters. To produce it I have used techniques from traditional calligraphy (drawing, use of pencil and ink on paper) to create an effect usually generate instantaneously by computer coding in order to stress the tension between the finished piece and the production behind it. The tension between the two and the uncertainty are represented in the font by the missing and misplaced pixels in each letter.
This is a cloneThis monospace font was first created in paint using only the smallest possible grid (3x3), with wich every common glyph can (recognisable) be drawn. In this font not every glyph can be deciphered on its own. But on a second glance you shoud easily be able to read a word, phrase or a sentence.
FOR SOME STRANGE REASON THERE SEEMS TO BE AN INORDINATE INTEREST IN PIXEL FONTS FROM THE 1970'S AND 80'S. OK, ITS FUN FOR YOUNGER TYPOGRAPHERS TO WORK WITHIN STRICT RESTRICTIONS RECREATING FONTS THAT WERE DESIGNED YEARS AGO, LETS BE FAIR, THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY COMBINATIONS OF PIXLES WITHIN A 6X6 GRID.
WHAT DOES SUPPRISE ME IS THAT NO ONE HAS LOOKED BACK AT THE FIRST (I THINK) HOME COMPUTER, NAMELY THE ZX81 WHICH WAS RELEASED BY CLIVE SINCLAIR, AN ENGLISH ELECTRONICS CO. IN 1981. IT HAD 1 KB OF RAM (NO JOKE), 8 KB OF ROM AND A CPU THAT RAN AT AN AMAZING 3.25 MHZ. DATA WAS STORED ON CASSETTE TAPES AND THE SCREEN WAS YOUR TELEVISION.
AS NO ONE HAS CHECKED OUT THE ZX81 I HAVE MADE A FONT THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL FONT USED BY THE COMPUTER. I HAVE USED 5 BRICKS WHERE AS THE ORIGINAL USED ONLY 1. BEAT THAT!
~This "is" MC font, except it has two times better quality and I added much more glyphs! Please tell me what characters should I add next :)
Update log
18/08 - Added "Basic Greek" letters and fixed some mistakes.
20/08 - Added Coptic and the rest of Greek; completed "More Latin."
21/08 - Added breve to small and capital A-Breve; completed Latin-A; added Hebrew letters; whole IPA supplement
06/09 - Fixed some mistakes
05/10 - Added Georgian and Arabic single letter forms
7&9/10 - Fixed some mistakes
21/11 - Added Arrows and UCASE
22/11 - "Extended Latin-B" Completed!
24/11 - Added Katakana and redid the "§" symbol.
10/02 - Added Armenian; ę's ogonek is now more to the left.
WHAT SHOULD I MAKE NEXT?
The Screen-80 font for the Commodore 64.
This is a clone of ThreeBySevenThis is a pixelated font inspired by multiple pixelated i used. This font is published in the public domain (CC0). It means that you can use, modify, clone, distribute, sell without any permition or credit requierment.
This font has been designed to code, it implies it is monospaced.
For pixel-lovers. 4x4(5) for best legibility in smallest size.
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/360418/nt3_00
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1215601/fs_3x3_0
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1406220/pixel-3x5
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1340150/pixel4x4
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/589994/yet_another_small_font
http://ru.fontzzz.com/font/category/38_pixel__bitmap.htm
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/vic-fieger/sixpak/
https://www.behance.net/gallery/33669138/Arapix
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/15399/thepix
Just in case anybody wanted a small, serifed, pixel-sharp font with personality and figure (old-style) numerals, I whipped this up... then overachieved, perhaps. It has full Latin-1 and Latin Extended-A support, extended punctuation, most Greek, and as much Cyrillic as I could justify working on. It also has some Roman numerals, many arrows, and a few other random things.
If anyone out there actually wishes to use this for setting anything with Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, please let me know if I've made any terrible errors or if more characters are desired. I know better than to trust my typographical sense for alphabets I don't use in an actual language context!