This font is a recreation of the font used in Pokémon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow Edition for the Game Boy consoles (except Game Boy Micro) with extended characters.
The English version of the "m" and "é", the "PK" and "MN" symbols, the Pokédollar sign and the letters with apostrophe ("c'", "d'", "'d", "j'", "l'", "'l", "m'", "'m" (English, Italian and French versions), "n'", "p'", "'r" (English and Italian versions), "s'", "'s", "t'", "'t", "u'", "'v" and "y'") are located in the Private Use Area block using from codepoint U+E000 to codepoint U+E017.
NOTE: The extended characters are made by myself.
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This is a pixel font that imitates Romanian archaic fonts used 1830 - 1860 latin alphabets meant to look like Cyrillic. There are many other variations but I tried to create the one that is most readable as pixel font. It also includes Romanian Cyrillic symbols used until 1860. I have also included other latin symbols that were in use for example sound ă was not standardized so you could write it as ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ and it would mean the same thing or previous to 1860 Romanian latin used accents (accute, circumflex and grave) much like French language does today. All those extra latin symbols are included. I do not know Cyrillic so my experience with it is solely based on what I read about Romanian Cyrillic Alphabet on wikipedia and omniglot. Is worth to noting that Romanian territories used Old Church Slavonic as administrative language until the 16th or 17th century .
This is a small 10 pixel font that I am making primarily for low-res games and screens. The font is meant to be small but visually very pleasing. This font focuses primarily on letters that are still used today. So old letters or unused letters are not added. Right now it supports Latin, some Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Thai, Greek & Coptic. Due to addition of diacritics, and other markings, the distance between lines is somewhat bigger than most other fonts relative to the font size. I recommend you manually reduce the line distance by say -1 or -2 to squish the text a bit vertically. It is being used in a few games since it's inception.
What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.
The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction.
More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.
At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.
Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).
Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...