work in progress font

Update:finished uppercase russian alphabet

A font based on the IBM PS/55 Japan customized for Code Page 437 on the int10h.org site. 

Sep 25, 2025 - Added textures and building block type glyphs starting at U+E000. These work quite well as a loaded font in QB64 PE apps and I can mix the 12x24 with the 24x24. This gives me a way to create the maps on a square grid and add text that looks normal since two language letters fit in one square cell.

One pro/con about these glyphs is that they are intended to be displayed, and not printed, with a light color on a dark background. Many glyphs look like negative images and that's exactly how I'm designing them. I programmed a little drawing program that has two drawing areas with the second being a real-time reverse image of the first, and that helps when designing the glyphs to be entered into FontStruct. 

Sep 23, 2025 - Changing my plan to make all glyphs in the Unicode Private Use Area from U+E000-U+F8FF minimum size of 24 pixels by 24 pixels. They will be double-wide and possibly triple-wide or quad-wide. A capability of outline fonts is that a glyph can extend beyond the boundaries contrasted with legacy bitmap fonts. I need symbols and sprites that extend parts into the adjacent cells to represent actions like a swinging sword, fire breath, power bolt, etc. With 4096 Unicode Codepoints just from U+E000 - U+EFFF, I'll be able to define different textures, creatures, poses, and actions without being limited to a bounded box.

All glyphs in U+F000 - U+F8FF will be reserved for character sets from different computers starting with double-wide characters from IBM Code Page 437 represented with U+F000 - U+F0FF. Eventually, I'll add interesting sets from other computers that typically have 256 characters.

I wanted a Code Page 437 Font with 1x2 aspect ratio with dimensions evenly divisible by 4. A language glyph typically occupies 10 pixels wide by 16 pixels high centered horizontally and vertically. This gives a 1 pixel pad on the left and right and 4 pixels on the top and bottom, which looks better in text only, grid based programs. Letters and symbols with multiple vertical strokes, complex contours, or serifs, such as @, M, m, W, etc. may touch the boundaries. Letters with descenders can take up to 2 pixels below the base line. Diactric marks can extend up to 2 pixels above the letter height. All other graphic, block and line drawing glyphs can occupy the full 12x24. Originally designed for Roguelike programs, I use this font with QB64 Phoenix Edition which supports the default ASCII to Unicode mappings. I installed the TTF file in Windows 11 and have no problem so far. I may add support for other Unicode symbols or possibly in the Private Use Area.

I'm inspired by many different ideas, sprites and fonts from other websites:

Kreative Korp Apple Fonts Commodore 64 Fonts TRS-80 Fonts

https://graphicriver.net/item/monochrome-black-and-white-pixel-art-icons-set/41937705

https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/1700-sprite-assets-in-1bit

https://piiixl.itch.io/mega-1-bit-icons-bundle

https://piiixl.itch.io/1-bit-16px-icons-part-1

Started with the concept of having only one rounded corner at the top. Named after the Bugatti Veyron.

Unfinished, experimenting with halftone

[For best results set to Pixel View.]

This.

ColorComp entry, inspired by the Memphis art style. I started this originally a few years ago with several color variations (using the three main colors), but I couldn't decide which ones to go with, so this sat unfinished for a while. In the end I decided to go with this.

A blackletter-inspired unicase design. I'm thinking this will look good on certificates, diplomas and all sorts of official documents where readability is secondary. I've got some spacing adjustments to make in the punctuation.

Thanks to Sed4tives for STF_FAUX BEZIER ROTUNDS

See more:

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/989729/fraktur_refined

Chrysalide Old Face | FontStruct

https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2629304/echo-pixel-garalde-cyrillic

Garamond Italic SP | FontStruct

fs Fermat | FontStruct

RuneScape Large | FontStruct

Caps only. Inspired by the cool font "Chwast Art Tone" -or simply "Artone"- (1968, by the legendary master of design Seymour Chwast), "Inkwell" (1992, Sam Wang) and "Dogsmoke" (2019, Humberto Gillan), and recalling the feelings of those unforgettable momments from the "Saturday Night Fever" times. Tony Manero lives! Thanks a lot to @Dmitiy Sychiov for designing these beautiful Cyrillic glyphs.

DOBINI BALWAUM (Inline) — Didone-style 18th century modern serif
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Dobini Balwaum is a Didone, or modern, serif typefaces inspired by the works of Bodoni, Didot and Walbaum.

This font had been in the making for quite a long time as I ren into several design difficulties along the way. Most challenging parameter was the inline width. By default the width for the inline was set at 0.125 (or 1/8th) grid units.

Maintaining a constant width for the inline proved to be next to impossible. Therefor it evolves around a 'close' approximation of 0.125 units instead. Stroke weight for the letterform contours also proved to be somewhat of a constraining factor for the overall design concept. As it limits the ability to build complex geometry.

Due to the complexity in brick arrangements the font remains having some minor imperfections that I wasn't able to polish out so far yet, and some may never will..

For now only Basic Latin letters, it remains a WIP

I hope you like it so far,

Cheers

THIS FONT IS KERNED.

THIS CONTAINS THE LATIN AND GREEK ALPHABETS.

CHANGELOG

• 2018:02:06 — FIRST RELEASE WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT CHARACTERS.

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G1 Radia. A scaled down version of an originally larger fontstruction. Lots of details with smooth micro bullnose serifs, high contrast stroke lines, and decorative ball terminals.

Inspired by ribbons, snake's forked tongue and flowers...