Recreation of the main pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap" (2004) on the Game Boy Advance.
This is the monospaced variant, as found in the game's ROM and as used in the initial character name entry screens. In game, the font is then used proportionally - this will be provided as a separate font recreation.
A handful of characters - ™ trade mark sign (U+2122), ♪ eight note (U+266A), ❤ heavy black heart (U+2764), ▶ black right-pointing triangle (U+25B6) - had very subtle antialiasing. In this recreation, it has been removed. The tileset also includes two different sets of double quotation marks (which are not used in the game itself) - the "fatter" ones have been mapped to heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament (U+275D) and heavy double comma quotation mark ornament (U+275E).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters, with custom glyphs for characters with a dakuten and handakuten. The game itself also uses a series of complex kanji characters (particularly in the introduction). Some of those characters are also wider than the default 8 pixel tiles. These have not been included in this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the medium/high resolution character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
This is a clone of Atari STRecreation of the character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Columns" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive.
Compared to the arcade, the console version does not rely on antialiasing. This recreation includes the alternative "T" and "I", mapped to the lowercase characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after 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 main pixel font from Comad/New Japan System's "Fantasia" (1994) (one of the many "sexy Qix" type games). This font was reused for "New Fantasia" (1995).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the limited pixel font for the high score entry on Midway/Bally's "Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D" (1992) pinball, and later reused in other machines such as "Theatre of Magic" (1995). Only the latin characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "QuackShot Starring Donald Duck" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, 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.
Recreation of the pixel font from the Clockwork Tortoise's Sega CD / Mega CD version of "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
The font is used for the title screen and end credits. Note the one lowercase "c", needed for the credit for background artist "Rae McCarson".
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the built-in font found in the old Thomson line of 8-bit computers (Thomson MO5, MO5E, MO5NR, MO6, T9000, TO7, TO7/70, TO8, TO8D, TO9, TO9+ and Olivetti Prodest PC128).
This recreation combines the character sets found in the various localised versions. A few accented characters have been added to make the set more complete, but note that there are no acute/grave/circumflex accent versions for uppercase letters.
Apart from that, only the characters present in the original font (that I could find through emulation) have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Atari's "Super Bug" (1977) and "Fire Truck" (aka "Smokey Joe", 1978).
In the games, the font is incomplete. Both lack a "Q", "V" and "W", which I made from scratch for this recreation, trying to approximate the overall style/feel. The "J" is present in "Super Bug", but not "Fire Truck". Conversely, the "K" is present in "Fire Truck" only.
With the exception of the added letters, only the characters present in the games' tilesets have been included.
Recreation of the small variant of a fancy-looking unused pixel font found in Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
To my knowledge, this is not used anywhere in the game. Note the accented/special characters, which are shared with the larger variant of the same font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (F)Recreation of a fancy-looking unused pixel font found in Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
To my knowledge, this is not used anywhere in the game. Note the accented/special characters, which are shared with a smaller variant of the same font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
While the letters and numbers are the same as "Knights of the Round" (1991) (with the exception of the oddly modified "g", "j" and "y"), this game changes most of the punctuation/special characters, and adds a large number of extended/accented latin characters (though there is also a variant set, which isn't as complete and looks rather awful).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Knights of the RoundRecreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Phantasy Star" (1987) for the Sega Master System.
This font includes an almost full set of katakana characters. In the tile set, 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.
Similarly, in-game the single and double quotes are positioned on the preceding line (and the single quote reuses the same glyph as the comma), but have been vertically spaced accordingly in this recreation.
This font also includes a handful of thin/small latin characters - these are used in the stats/fight screens for "HP", "MP", "LV", "EP", and for "AW" in the japanese version's intro story screens. These have been mapped to the lowercase, and the remaining lowercase characters have been left blank.
Lastly, the original tile set also includes six kanji characters. These have not been added to this recreation. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the japanese version of Activision's "Predator" (1987) on the NES.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, 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 Predator NESRecreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "Syvalion" (1988).
The original has an additional subtle 1px border around all characters, which acts as basic antialiasing. In this recreation, this border has been removed.
Note the "black circle" (U+25CF), "medium shade" (U+2592), and the round "target" character that has been mapped to "currency symbol" (U+00A4)
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Vic Tokai's "Clash at Demonhead" (aka "Dengeki Big Bang!", 1989) on the NES.
Note that the game features two distinct exclamation marks ... the second/straight one has been mapped to "inverted exclamation mark" (U+00A1).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, 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.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Taito's "Darius Force" (aka "Super Nova", 1993) on the SNES.
Note the cursor/square character, mapped to "black large square" (U+2B1B).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "Darius" (1987), also reused in "Darius II" (1989).
In the tile set for "Darius", the "$" was missing a few pixels - this was addressed in "Darius II", and this recreation contains the dollar sign from the latter version.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Donkey Kong Classics" (1988) on the NES, which combines the fonts from "Donkey Kong" (1981) and "Donkey Kong Jr." (1982).
The one distinctive feature of this font are the "G" and the exclamation mark. Note that in the original "Donkey Kong" (1981) the period/full stop and the ".," (mapped here to the ";") were one pixel higher than in the "Classics" version. In addition, this recreation includes the maths symbols ("+", "-", "×", "÷") from "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" (1983). "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" and "Donkey Kong 3" (1983) also used this same font, except they changed the "8".
Other than the additions of the maths symbols, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "Barker Bill's Trick Shooting" (1990) on the NES.
Note that the gun character is mapped to "left arrow" (U+2190), as fontstruct does not provide the option of generating the more appropriate "pistol" (U+1F52B) emoji unicode point.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font is used in the western release for all dialog boxes.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Sin-Nihon Laser Soft/Telenet Japan/NEC's "Last Alert" (aka "Red Alert", 1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font is used for the cutscenes / story panels between levels in the western release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.