Recreation of the pixel font from Hudson Soft's "The Dynastic Hero" (1993) on the PC Engine - a remake/rebrand of Westone's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (1991).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note the special circled roman numerals "Ⅰ" and "Ⅱ", which have been mapped to "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit One" (U+278A) and "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two" (U+278B).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force II" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The font also lacks a lowercase.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters 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 Shining Force II (Small)Recreation 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.
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 Data East's "Heavy Smash" (1993). This font contains an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Banpresto's "Masked Riders Club: Battle Race" (1993).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned next to 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from Make Software/Capcom's "DuckTales 2" (1993) on the NES/Famicom.
This font includes the katakana characters from the japanese release. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned to the right of the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" (1993) on the Game Boy.
This recreation includes the special/accented characters from the french and german releases of the game. In game, the characters with a diaeresis use an additional tile above them - in this recreation, the characters have been combined properly (and as a result, the height of the font overall is greater than 8px).
As an aside, this font was also used for the fan translation of "For frog the bell tolls" (aka "カエルの為に鐘は鳴る" / "Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru", 1992/2011).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 9 July 2022 to include additional accented uppercase characters, and the star icon.
incomplete pixel font set, based on bullfrog's amiga real time strategy title syndicate (1993). designed to be used aliased at a size of 5px (or multiples thereof). includes alternative uppercase/lowercase characters. originally posted at http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/62/
a custom variant of the pixel font used in konami's "batman returns" (1993) on the SNES, modified from monospaced to proportional while trying to maintain the quirky ligatures built into the monospaced original. this version expands (and tweaks) the punctuation characters present in the actual game's tile set.
This is a clone of Batman Returns SNESrecreation of the monospaced pixel font used for the start menu and options screen in konami's "batman returns" (1993) for the SNES. this version expands (and tweaks) the punctuation characters present in the actual game's tile set.
A thin proportional font, based on the title sequence of the Bitmap Brothers' "Chaos Engine" (1993).
Designed to be used aliased at a size of 9px (or multiples thereof).
Originally created in 2004 based on the Amiga version, and extended in 2012. Repackaged in 2022, with a small tweak to the exclamation, question, and quote marks, and the addition of the ampersand from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES versions.
Last (hopefully) final tweaks now 27/08/2022, fixing the "G", "V", "X", "1", "9", adding a copyright symbol, and tweaking the spacing and vertical position of some of the punctuation marks, referencing the SNES version some more.
Recreation of the pixel font used in Capcom's "Hyper Street Fighter 2 - The Anniversary Edition" (2004) - though it actually made its first appearance in "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included (but, for once, the set is almost complete in this game).
Color recreation of the pixel font used in Capcom's "Hyper Street Fighter 2 - The Anniversary Edition" (2004) - though it actually made its first appearance in "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Hyper Street Fighter 2 Anniversary EditionRecreation of the main pixel font from Bullfrog's "Syndicate" (1993) on the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC.
Updated to correct the numerals, and to add the "ç" from the language selection screen.
Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the primary large pixel font from Psikyo's first title, "Samurai Aces" (aka "Sengoku Ace", 1993).
Some of the spacing/kerning has been subtly tweaked for better balance. Note that the score counter in-game uses separate, smaller compound characters (e.g. "00", "01", "02" etc) - these are not included in this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Virgin Interactive/Acclaim Entertainment's "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (1993) on the Sega Master System.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters presents in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This font is used for the score counter, "You win"/"You lose", in-fight messages (for first hits, combos, etc.), and the after-match taunts.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This font is used for the score counter, "You win"/"You lose", in-fight messages (for first hits, combos, etc.), and the after-match taunts.
Some of the characters (such as the "M") are one pixel wider than the overall monospaced character width of 12 pixels, so their drop shadow overlaps/falls behind the following character, which is game-accurate.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (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 Super Street Fighter II (Large)