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The Unicode bitmap font from Minecraft, also known as GNU Unifont. The game has a font priority system called "providers" that looks for bitmap data for a specific character in the non-Latin European character set first, then in the accented Latin character set, then in the game's low-res default font, then finally here, in the high-res Unicode character set. You can override this priority system by going into Options... > Language..., then setting "Force Unicode Font" to ON.
The game stores this font in images containing 16 rows and 16 columns of characters. Each character is 16 pixels wide and 16 pixels tall, totalling 256 characters per image. Each image represents one Unicode codepage, and there are 256 pages, which covers characters U+0000 to U+FFFF. Control characters and most CJK characters are omitted here, because FontStruct doesn't officially support them.
The font is not monospace, however, so the effective widths of each character are stored in a separate file called glyph_sizes.bin. Information for each character is stored in one byte, and the upper and lower 4 bits of this byte represent the start column and end column with a number ranging from 0 to 15, where 0 is the leftmost column of the character's allotted 16x16 space, and 15 is the rightmost column, respectively.
Knowing all of this allowed me to automate most of the steps involved in creating this recreation. I did not use the FontStructor to make this, I instead used a program to directly interact with FontStruct's API. It is possible to add unsupported characters to a font with this method, but I chose to stay within the limits of what is officially supported.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS FONT IS NO LONGER BEING WORKED ON. I HAVE A BIGGER FONT TO WORK ON FOR THE TIME BEING.
YOU ARE FREE TO CLONE AND FINISH THIS FONT IF YOU WANT.
Finally done. Phew! It took two days to make this. This is a full collection of 5×7 Dot Matrix characters as seen on many devices, like Texas Instruments calculators. A lot of these are custom. Sources include TI-83, TI-86, TI-89, Casio Monochrome Graphing Calculators, Casio fx-115ES PLUS, and the rest, I created them myself. I included fractions for those themes on Microsoft Office don't have matching "1/3" and other fractions with the "1/4", "1/2", and "3/4". The fullwidth characters are substitutes for the other characters in the regular style, such as the math "x" and "y" from Casio.
Please note that character sets like Arabic and some Math Operators are beyond 5×7 pixels. If you want to know why? Because Arabic is very big and if I put it all in 5×7 pixels, the text will look weird, won't really fit inside, and there would be no point to it. I left it as is. Roman Numerals cannot fit if you were doing the "VIII" character, for example.
Enjoy!
8/28/2019: Font created.
1/7/2020: Added characters in the following form: Fullwidth and Halfwidth are used for making TI-73 Explorer characters, plus actual monospace setting characters. Note that Runic, Tagalog, and Hanunoo are replaced with character variants. The last variation of a character is from Minecraft's font. The fractions are also changed to level the line spacing. The wide "M" is never ever for use on Monospacing.
1/8/2020: More variations are added, extended to replace Buhid. I also added other math symbols and more. To type x̄, press unicode shortcut and type 01b2. To type ȳ, press unicode shortcut and type 01b3. I also added over a hundred, or two hundred, more characters to stock up on the font. Oh and I changed the filters to separate the pixels for a more pixel and retro look. Also fixed the spacing on the "Щ" character.
9/8/2020: Added a bunch of more characters to the font set.
8/25/2023: fixed the license so that the download works now.
The year is 2020. Oni is still making futuristic-y fonts. I was told there'd be flying cars. The future lied to me.
Contains support for:
All modern European Latin langauges (Full Latin-A character set), Cyrillic languages (Russian/Serbo-Croat/Bulgarian/Macedoian/Ukranian/Belarussian), Greek
The RomByte font when displayed on a matrix display in real life.
Comes with the feature that when you look far away / when the font is small, you don't notice the small gaps. However, when you up look closely, you can spot the tiny gaps between the pixels.
Can be used as a grey-colored version of RomByte if displayed correctly.
This is a clone of RomByteWelcome to the Future...
Dramatics aside, QUANTUM is a visual display typeface designed to convey one cyberpunk future out of many.
It is intended to be built as a monospaced font (however, spacing errors occurred, and it is a faux-monospace as a result), made on a 9x10 pixel grid out of a personal fascination with the vision of the cyberpunk future according to the 90s and a desire to capture the "spirit" of the original Sony PlayStation. One of the leading sources of inspiration is the work by The Designers Republic (tDR).
This typeface not only features Latin characters, but also Cyrillic, Greek, and even a few Coptic characters for good measure (in hopes of easing in the old world into the future)
A rugged bitmap display type inspired by the digital age of tactical espionage. Includes basic Cyrillic.
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/683812/db_como
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1329418/benk-2
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/719157/dhuwur_loro
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/522360/alphane
https://www.fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/138958/honest_1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1592397/amyn-1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/671570/shu_ling_regular
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/16702/7by5angles
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/208444/exempla_sans_ultra_light
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/220088/heartbreaker
This is a clone of Donburi ThinA Sci-Fi themed display font.
This is my first shot at making an actual display typeface. Honestly, I am quite impressed at how this turned out.
Although this is still very imcomplete, I am planning to go back & continue this Fontstruction soon.
This is a cloneOriginal size: 15pt
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A font which has a spurless, sans-serif, pixelated polygonal look which is somewhat reminescent of fonts used in VHS technology.
A lot of applied science went into this design. It's designed to remain legible on all media in all use conditions, provided that one uses the original size or a multiple thereof. Numerous technologies and mediums were employed to realize this objective.
"Diaspora" was tested and refined for use with/on/against:
• CRT, LCD & e-Ink screens
• image formats & compressed imagery (GIF, JPG)
• printers (inkjet, bubble jet, laserjet, & thermal)
• analog video & multi-generational copies (VHS, Super 8)
• digital video (AVI, MP4, MPEG, WEBM, WMV)
• 3D and voxel models (Blender, MagicaVoxel, POV-Ray)
• dynamic scaling hardware (game consoles and capture devices)
• imagery plugins & filters, including image degraders
• image scaling/interpolation hardware & software
• image recognition hardware & software
These all have traits which degrade, distort, compress, glitch, or otherwise alter imagery in various ways. This design aims to minimize the loss of legibility from these effects and to attain the best scores possible in various forms of imagery analysis. So far, this has proved extremely useful, as it can remain fully legible even when extreme JPG or video compression are applied to it thousands of times.
A piece of software I helped write, called the Marinan Imagery Deconstruction AI System (MIDAS), is being used on captured images of this font. The end objective is to realize the design which has the best all-around Marinan Interpretability Value (MIV) for all the tested platforms - the design which is considered by MIDAS to be the most legible in the most media under the broadest range of use conditions and quality levels.
MIDAS uses a set of considerations made with both humans and computers in mind, so a high MIV does not necessarily equal a better font - it just means one that the system thinks is easier to visually interpret. Note the use of the phrase "visually interpret" as opposed to "read". MIDAS tries to determine how well people and computers can tell what shapes are, not how much enjoyment they'll get from reading or how much strain they might undergo while doing it.
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VERSION HISTORY:
1.0.0 - initial release.
1.0.1 - More Latin support added.
1.0.2 - First batch of tests run.
1.0.3 - gjy5&ßẞ were improved, some glyphs added.
1.0.4 - Second batch of tests run. Space width reduced.
1.0.5 - Experimentally converted to a rounded spurless design, then converted back to a plain spurless after testing. A few new ligatures were added.
1.0.6 - Cyrillic and Greek enter development. Many of these letters must be altered to be distinct from their Latin counterparts.
1.0.7 - Some spacing values changed to increase internal consistency. More difficult tests are being devised. However, since only I seem interested in this type of work, this project is going on hiatus for some time.
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See also: AMFA, a font built with similar considerations in mind
An exact pixel-by-pixel copy of the font from the HeartGold/SoulSilver games.
I will add some original characters once the font is done for a more complete font file.
There's only the Japanese characters left to do!
UPDATE (2017-11-10)
> Fixed spacing on a LOT of characters
> Adjusted heights on some characters
UPDATE (2017-11-11)
> All English/Latin characters done
> Added all the random symbols and arrows
Inspired by new Mojang Logo.
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2435077/gintert-sans
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2213949/jangatron
This is a clone of Gyroscope CThe smallest you can get without compromising readability or consistency!
It is packed though, so use it when you really gotta cram a lot of info in a few pixels.
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans and Pompy Sans Condensed.
Also, pro tip: play around with kerning (the space between letters) if you're not too obsessed with the "exactly 1 px space". Sure it's cheating, but if it looks good, go for it!
This is a clone of Pompy Sans CondensedFinally, a pixel font that supports English,Turkish, Portuguese, Italian,French, and Spanish glyphs, and even some Hungarian ones! Inspired by modern sans-serif typefaces (mainly Helvetica), with highly readable and consistent lettering.
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans Condensed &Pompy Mini.
Let me know if there are any other glyphs you'd like to have with it, and I'll update it! Planning on implementing Cyrillic next.
Condensed version of Pompy Sans, great for when you need it to read nice and clearly! Like its parent, also supports a lot of glyphs that are hard to come by :))
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans and Pompy Mini.
This is a clone of Pompy Sans