~ Altima - created by Caveras after the original main text font used in Final Fantasy Tactics for the Sony PlayStation. ~
Altima is not the first recreation of the original PSone Final Fantasy Tactics font on the web, but certainly the most accurate and comprehensive you'll find. The font is based on the complete set of the game's international bitmap glyphs and thus also features the Japanese hiragana and katakana alphabets as well as countless additional stuff like a cyrillic base character set, special characters, zodiac signs, and whatnot.
The base font size and recommended setting for Altima is 16pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for the ultimate FFT experience.
License Information: You are not allowed to use this font for any commercial purposes. If you wish to obtain a commercial license, please contact me via email: cava@caveras.net
Final Fantasy Tactics on the PlayStation was developed by Square and published by Square & Sony in 1997.
***APRIL 2023 UPDATE***
A few more characters added and spacing of the "I" letters and their variants readjusted... Also, some characters redesigned... More to come...
An attempted recreaction of the Atari Games variation of the "Joystix", "Emulator" and "Emulogic" text fonts as used in-game and during tests from 1984 to 1998... Used in games such as Gauntlet, Xybots, Pit Fighter and Hard Drivin', among various others -- albeit with some custom deviations and extra characters NOT used in the actual text style itself... Also, upon further research, spacing between the actual letters vary by individual game (based on internal alpha tests)...
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated or associated with The E. W. Scripps Company or NetherRealm Studios (formerly Midway Games), a subsidiary of Warner Bros., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company... All contents and materials are properties of their respective owners. For entertainment, research, viewing and nostalgic purposes...
Pixel prototype of a font for an upcoming game being developed by yours truly. This will likely be used, but only for flashbacks and dreams. The normal ingame font may be a high-res version of this, or something different - tests are still being done to determine this.
English only for now, as there are no plans to localize the game myself.
"Madufaros" = "daughter of Madu".
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Original size: 9pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfect rendering)
Operation MXP is a port of 8bitoperator JVE font reworked into a very sharp style.
Contains:
- All original symbols ported, and reworked
- More latin keeping the same style
That's all! Lookin' forward to make the logos.
This is far from the first recreation of the original Nintendo DS system font, but it certainly is one of the most comprehensive variants, including about 800 characters.
NDS12 features a vast array of diacritics, common foreign characters, full Japanese hiragana and katakana character sets, buttons, arrows, unique glyphs, and many, many more.
The font is a 1:1 rebuild based on various games, expanded with many characters that couldn't be found in any game.
The base font size and recommended setting for NDS12 is 10pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for the ultimate handheld pixel experience.
~ NDS12 - created by Caveras after the original system font of the Nintendo DS. ~
What a horrible night to have a font!
This font adds upon the font "Castlevania 2" by Patrick Lauke. I am a coder, and simply can't use fonts without their having all the necessary symbols. I did this very quickly, and it may be inaccurate or imbalanced so feel free to take it and remix it yourself!
(Original font: Neoqueto - Darktech LDR)
This is a clone of SERPULOThese elegant letters appear as the original main font used in the little-known tactical SNES RPG Gemfire, or Super Royal Blood in Japan.
Ishmeria is a faithful and exact recreation of said in-game font, expanded with hundreds of diacritic variants, number variations, additional bonus characters and various dingbat symbols. And that's not everything: all Japanese hiragana and katakana characters from the original version are also included, making this one of my most extensive recreations to date.
The base font size and recommended setting for Ishmeria is 16pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for an authentic pixel performance.
Gemfire on the SNES, known as Super Royal Blood in Japan, was developed and published by Koei in 1992.
~ Ishmeria - created by Caveras after the original font used in Gemfire for the SNES. ~
Reconstruction of the typeface used on most video games from Konami in systems as MSX and NES - earlier games used MSX's default typeface. This typeface differs from the most known at this style (7x7) used at games like Pacman and Super Mario Bros (on truth, since 1977, at B&W coin-op machines).
Lowercase letters were done by me, never were seen at that games and probably don't match any font with lowercase letters used in games, the far as I know.
Recreated directly from screenshots I took of the game. I replicated every character I could find and extended the Latin set from there.
I haven't played much of the franchise, but I always loved the typeface used in the journals and was surprised no one else had recreated it.
Kubasta is a monospaced pixel font designed with legibility in mind. The glyphs are easily distinguishable from one another and legible even in small sizes. It’s perfectly applicable for retro style interfaces and games.
An earlier version was created with BitFontMaker2 in 2014 and featured in Beat Cop by Pixel Crow.
Having grown quite font of recreating video game pixel fonts, I did yet another one: the font used in the SNES classic Super Punch-Out!!
Quarlow is my most extensive font to date, featuring over 850 glyphs based on the characters appearing in the game. It comes with a whole hiragana & katakana set as well as a cyrillic base character set, countless added characters and all of the more common special characters, diacritic characters, etc.
The base font size and recommended setting for Quarlow is 16pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for the ultimate punch-out experience.
Super Punch-Out!! on the SNES was developed and released by Nintendo in 1994. I picked the name of the font (Quarlow) after one of the many quirky opponents you face in the game.
~ Quarlow - created by Caveras after the original font used in Super Punch-Out!! for the Super Nintendo. ~
Welcome 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)
This one is quite ambitious! A recreation of Metroid Fusion's font. The ones I found online weren't quite exact to the game so I did my best to recreate it. Still a work in progress (working on the Hiragana and Katakana from the game, as well as adding more Latin support and Cyrillic).
Feel free to use, but please credit me :^)
Presenting Nintendo's Excitebike (aka. Vs. Excitebike), released in 1984 for the FC, NES and Arcade, and 1988 for the FDS. This was based on Excitebike Series. This font is a part of Nintendoid 1.
This is a clone of Nintendoid 1Font from the awesome PC/Steam game "Streets of Rogue".
I'll add More Latin support soon, provided the game actually has it. Entering those glyphs into the game is a pain - no copy/paste and Alt codes don't seem to work. I'll probably use a savegame editor to change a character's class name into a bunch of More Latin glyphs so that I can see how they render.
Version 1.5: All permutations of E and F were refined and improved.
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A modernized, rounded, and truncated version of Marengi. This is made to be a good text editor/chat font. It has very few kerning pairs, so it should render fine in any software.
Ascenders are only allowed to be as tall as the uppercase/numerals, while descenders are allowed to go 2px below the line. This creates a natural line spacing that is readable and not too dense. (Diacritics break this rule, of course... darn them...)
Gone are the curved descenders/termini on letters like gjty. The simpler geometry makes this design more suited to speedreading than its predecessor. In fact, altering those four letters alone improves speedreading on this font by up to 14%!
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09JUN2019: I have been using this as my main IRC/chat font for some time now. Of all my chatfont designs, this has proven the easiest to read and use.
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MIV: 8.31
Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
Presenting Capcom's Mega Man 5 (aka. Rockman 5: Blues no Wana?) released in 1992. This font is the same to Mega Man 3+4, and almost similar to Mega Man 3. This was based on Mega Man Series.
This is a clone of Mega Man 3+4