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.
This font was last edited: 21:20 UTC 19. June 2020
I was looking for a localization friendly pixel font and could not find any that had good coverage and was not outrageously expensive ($700+) for commerical usage. Thats why I created "PixelLocale".
This font is intended to be reminiscent of the original Pokemon Red/Blue games. Too see how they differ check out this image: https://imgur.com/ixoYRtd
It was important to me to create a consistant looking font across scripts.
You can use it however you like, 100% free with no attribution. Lets make the world more accessible.
Coverage:
Latin characters (815/815),
Greek and Coptic (119/119),
Cyrillic (263/263),
Georgian (83/83)
Hebrew (86/86) (Fontstruct has poor support form Niqqud and Cantillation)
Bopomofo (37/37) (Need feedback)
I'd love to add more scritps. When I started my goal was to have every glyph supported by Fontstruct, but after learning that support for many asian scripts was limited I halted. If someone can shed some light on these limitations and how severe they are and for what scripts they apply, please let me know. I can be reached at "johste[at]chumpware[dot]com".
Font from the ingame marquee display of Barcade Brawl, a 2015 game by yours truly. This was made to look similar to the system fonts from old arcade boards, PC microsystems, etc. You've probably seen the fonts I'm talking about; they're everywhere and many people refer to them singularly as "the arcade font" or "the NES font".
This is 7x7 with no wasted matrix, but it looks better without monospacing since not every glyph is the same width. It also makes a decent terminal & chat font, at least for those who don't care about the case of the messages they read and write.
Feel free to use this in your games, etc.!
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
A faithful, authentic, all-caps, nostalgic 8-bit font based on 1st-party Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Duck Hunt, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Clu Clu Land, Pinball, Gyromite, Baseball, Urban Champion, and of course, as the name says in the font, Super Mario Bros.!
Featuring a grand total of 1085 glyphs! If we do glyph number translation, 1085 translates to October 1985, back when the Nintendo Entertainment System first launched in North America!
Now you're typing with power!
The definitive retro gaming font, now available to use for your gaming-related projects, without a single arcade quarter required, is here! Why stick with Press Start 2P when you can use this, especially the fact that this font has over 1000 characters? This font was originally inspired by nostalgic arcade games, such as Bubble Bobble, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Frogger, Wonder Boy, Kung-Fu Master, Punch-Out!!, Karate Champ, Burger Time, Centipede, Track & Field, Bomb Jack, and many more!
This is a clone of Super Mario Bros. NESEver seen the classic Minecraft font in languages like Russian, Greek, Polish, Vietnamese ... ?
It’s possible by downloading this font.
Ever seen the Undertale/Deltarune font in languages like Russian, Greek, Polish, Vietnamese ... ?
It's possible by downloading this font.
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.
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)
Ashlander Pixel is a pixelated version of "Goudy Medieval". Born out of a deep love for Bethesdas "The Elder Scrolls"-series and typography this font not only supports the latin, greek and cyrillic alphabet, but also contains a variety of special symbols related to The Elder Scrolls.
I suggest using the ttf-format for now as the spacing in the otf-format is for some reason totally off. I optimized this font using InDesign, therefore the kerning in some other programs might not work as intended.
I am happy to hear feedback on this font and any issues you might encounter.
May the Nine be with you.
This has more letters than the original version that weren't originally in the game. I'd recommend you choose this one, as it has more stuff.
This is a clone of Mario Kart DS (marioFont)-OriginalThis is an enhanced version of the retro font you see on old games. Still WIP. The squares are just placeholders and will be removed shortly. I hope to make this have more characters than any other fonts in the future (this might take a while). This font can be used in retro-style games, computer graphics, or anything else you can imagine. This font is pixelated, meaning it is lightweight and easy to port to many devices.
This is a clone of Ndless Default FontA better version of BM MINI with much more characters. Compatible with English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, German, Portuguese, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Vietnamese, Russian, Belarusian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Macedonian.
There you go! I made a usual recreation of the dialogue font used in Kirby’s Avalanche (a.k.a. Kirby’s Ghost Trap in Europe), Nintendo’s attempt at localizing Puyo Puyo in the 90’s, before the time when SEGA bought the Puyo Puyo license. Almost all glyphs from the game are included, as well as custom glyphs for other languages. Have fun! Bayoen~!
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 is the font of Newer Super Mario Bros. DS, a romhack of New Super Mario Bros. Credits to the Newer Team for making the hack and the font that goes with it. The font's internal name is 2647 Delfino. Button, smilies and such are starting from DB80 instead of E000 in the in-game font.
Stylized 5x5 pixel font. Tiny but power-packed!
I designed it to have a slightly balloon-esque, oldschool arcade look. Feel free to use it in your games.
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Original size: 7.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
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 :^)
A 7x7 outline design which is made to form solid-looking masses from the glyphs while still allowing the outer perimeters of words to take on some unique shapes.
Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
(Original font: Neoqueto - Darktech LDR)
This is a clone of SERPULOIf you're playing the Cube World steam release, this is probably the font you want. The star is in place of the ± symbol, so the UI looks correct.
Cubish EPX is a re-imagining of the 'resource1.dat' block letter font from Cube World, now with less blocky pixelization and more consistent 'EPX-style' pixel filtering and spacing. A number of unclear characters have been cleaned up as well, especially in the international extended Latin characters. A dot was added to the numeral zero to disambiguate it from the letter O, as well.
20190926.a
This is a clone of Cubish EPX ExtendedCubish EPX Extended... Cubish EPX, now with lowercase letters!
Cubish EPX is a re-imagining of the 'resource1.dat' block letter font from Cube World, now with less blocky pixelization and more consistent 'EPX-style' pixel filtering and spacing. A number of unclear characters have been cleaned up as well, especially in the international extended Latin characters. A dot was added to the numeral zero to disambiguate it from the letter O, as well.
Version 20190922.e
This is a clone of Cubish EPXA font based on the Cube World 'resource1.dat' font, but with a few missing international characters added. This font variant respects the Cube World Steam release, which has a star in place of the 'PLUS-MINUS SIGN' (U+00B1), and a filled circle/coin in place of the 'REGISTERED SIGN' (U+00AE). The original 'correct' symbols (from the Cube World alpha release) for those two characters have been placed at (U+2213, but flipped upside down) and (U+24C7) respectively.
The font is all caps. The font may appear slightly smaller in-game than the original font did, but I could not work around this issue despite trying to adjust the filter/scaling.
To use this font in-game, download and extract it, and rename the .ttf file to 'resource1.dat', and paste it replacing the original file in the Cube World installation directory.
I tried to accurately reflect the somewhat odd pixel spacing of the original font, where it used 5x5 blocks of pixels, where the block was either entirely empty, entirely filled, filled with a 4x4 block offset to one corner, or filled with a 2x2 block offset to one corner. The only character that does not follow this rule is the Star character.
Cube World is Copyright 2010-2019 Picroma e.K.
If the copyright holders of Cube World wish this font to be removed from Fontstruct, please leave a note and I will remove it ASAP.
This is a clone of CWBlockFontButtons and console names for retro tracks are in the High Private Use Surrogates (starting from U+DB80). More "squished" characters (used for Bowser's Castle 2 in french and maybe other circuits because normal characters don't fit in the menu) are in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth blocks (to add later).
An accurate re-rendition of the 'resource1.dat' font from Cube World. All of the 'pixels' of the font are made up of 5x5 patterns. (Well, for every character except the star, which uses a different 2x2 pattern.) This font follows the exact original ordering of characters from the alpha, but also puts the steam release star and filled circle at their correct unicode offsets.
Version 20190923.a
Cube World is Copyright 2010-2019 Picroma e.K.
If the copyright holders of Cube World wish this font to be removed from Fontstruct, please leave a note and I will remove it ASAP.
Cubish EPX is a re-imagining of the 'resource1.dat' block letter font from Cube World, now with less pixel-ification and more consistent 'EPX-style' pixel filtering and spacing. A number of unclear characters have been cleaned up as well, especially in the international extended latin characters. A dot was added to the numeral zero to disambiguate it from the letter O, as well.
Please note that unlike the Cube World font from the 2019 steam release (but like the 2013 alpha), the ® and ± characters are actually those characters, and the filled circle and the star characters appear at their correct unicode offsets. If you want a font with the ® replaced with a filled circle, and the ± character replaced with a star, see 'Cubish EPX Tweaked'.
20190923.1 - fixed euro symbol by request
This is a clone