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Feeling inspired after reading Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omagari, I set out to make my own 8x8 pixel font. I worked with a similar approach to the one I used in the larger grid font offstruct rgb.
First started in Adobe Illustrator, each character consists of three iterations of the same 6x6 pixel letter: in RGB Red, Green and Blue. These were layered, offset by one pixel diagonally, filling the 8x8 box. To achieve additive blending, I applied the "Lighten" transparancy setting. Combinations of overlaying these three primary RGB colours result in the secondary RGB coloured pixels Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. In the additive mixing of coloured lights, the equal blending of all three primary colours results in White. All pixels were then entered manually into the fontstructor and black pixels were added for display purposes.
Recreation of the pixel font from Allumer/Taito's "Rezon" (1991).
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 RezonRecreation of the pixel font from Taito's "N.Y. Captor" (1985). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Rumba LumberRecreation of the pixel font from Jaleco's "Field Combat" (1985).
The alphanumeric characters are the same as "Exerion" (1983), but note the lowercase "c" and the different punctuation marks.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Gigas" (1986).
Oddly, the game was then bootlegged/modified by Nihon Systems as "Omega" (1986), though it appears that it was never widely released.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from NMK/Jaleco's "Saint Dragon" (1989).
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 Saint Dragon (Small)Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Columns II: The Voyage Through Time" (1990).
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 Columns IIRecreation of the small pixel font from NMK/Jaleco's "Saint Dragon" (1989).
Note that the original colour version of this font uses some antialiasing, particularly in punctuation characters like the "&". This recreation is non-antialiased reinterpretation of those characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Goof Troop: Pirate Island Adventure" (1993) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Goof TroopRecreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Goof Troop: Pirate Island Adventure" (1993) on the SNES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A much updated version of the Chicago font used in early Macintosh computers from the 80's. Changes include: Made numerals tabular, extended language support, and additional symbols.
This is a clone of Chicago 12Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Pop'n TwinBee" (1993) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The same font (with a few extra characters like the "%", "×" and "/", which have been added here as well), was used in the follow-up "Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures" (1994).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Pop'n TwinBee (SNES)Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Pop'n TwinBee" (1993) on the SNES.
The same font (with a few extra characters like the "%", "×" and "/", which have been added here as well), was used in the follow-up "Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures" (1994).
Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Presenting Capcom's Mega Man 2, released in 1988. This font was same to ducktales. Even though it's similar to Mega Man. This was the second game on the series.
This is a clone of Mega Man