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Dark Forces PDA Font 

by Goatmeal
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153831 Published: 29th June, 2020
Last edited: 30th September, 2020
Created: 27th June, 2020

Font used in the menu screens, Kyle Katarn's PDA, and subtitles from Star Wars: Dark Forces, (C) 1995 LucasArts.

While there have been at least 2 previous recreations of this design (Peter 'The Hutt' Klassen's "DFFonts 1.5" FON fonts and James 'Burning Gundam' Milne's "Katarns PDF"(sic) TTF font) -- as well as a FontStruction from 2008 (Magic_Al's "Rebel Agent PDA Classic," based on Klassen's FON fonts) -- this is a wholly original version based on recent screencaptures and an FNT export.

The PDA / menu font used in the game isn't generated from a file within the game's resources; they are actually pre-rendered static images in the game's art assets. As a result, the spacing between words and after punctuation is highly variable in these pictures.  Most of the spaces appear to be either 3 or 4 pixels wide (or combinations thereof for doublespaces); the width of 3 pixels was chosen in this font because 3-pixel spaces occur more frequently in the images than 4-pixel spaces do.

(And in a pre-rendered video cutscene used for Jabba the Hutt's speech subtitles, the spacing widths of the PDA font vary anywhere from 3 to 6(!) pixels.)

The numerals 1–3 used in the PDA screens were also located in an FNT font file containing 0–9.  They are used with the game's mapping system, along with a 'standard' S for maps containing 'sub-levels' (which I have placed in the $ position).  So, the numerals are now finally screen accurate for the first time in any version.  While the apostrophe (') was reversed in-game, it has been corrected here; the original apostrophe can be found in the grave accent (`) position.  The mission task's bullet point (a hollow circle) is located in the @ position.

The exclamation point (!) is found only once, in a single line of Jabba's subtitles (previously mentioned above).  However, the dot of the ! dips _below_ the baseline in the video.  I have corrected it to rest upon the baseline, matching the other punctuation; for sake of completeness, I've included the original 'lower-dotted' version in the More Latin section.

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      Rebel Agent PDA 

      by Magic_Al
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      4301930 Published: 28th June, 2008
      Last edited: 8th August, 2008
      Created: 28th June, 2008
      Rebel Agent PDA is based upon a font appearing in the game Star Wars: Dark Forces. Thanks to Peter Klassen for originally extracting a functional bitmap font from the game's briefing screens. This is an alpha version pending completion of extended Latin characters, and metrics editing becoming possible on FontStruct. Spacing should be manually adjusted to separate characters by the width of the letter I, as text appears in Dark Forces.
      This is a clone of Rebel Agent PDA Classic
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          Rebel Agent PDA Classic 

          by Magic_Al
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          1901931 Published: 28th June, 2008
          Last edited: 30th June, 2008
          Created: 28th June, 2008
          Rebel Agent PDA Classic is a FontStrut TrueType version of a bitmap font Peter Klassen extracted from briefing screens of the game Star Wars: Dark Forces. This is an alpha version pending metrics editing becoming possible on FontStruct. Spacing should be manually adjusted to separate characters by the width of the letter I, as text appears in Dark Forces.
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            LucasArts Star Wars Text 

            by Goatmeal
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            39981 Published: 12th March, 2023
            Last edited: 12th March, 2023
            Created: 5th March, 2023

            Main text font used in Star Wars: X-Wing, (C) 1993 LucastArts Entertainment Company, and Star Wars: TIE Fighter, (C) 1994 LucasArts Entertainment Company, as well as on the main menu screen for Agents (players) and Missions (game levels) for Star Wars: Dark Forces, (C) 1995 LucastArts Entertainment Company.

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