John H. Isles (QXZ) | FontStruct

9 01031 Published: 1st December, 2022
Last edited: 1st December, 2022
Created: 15th November, 2022

Westward ho! This is a recreation of the font used in the PC version of the classic game, 'The Oregon Trail'.

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25 02111 Published: 25th April, 2020
Last edited: 28th April, 2020
Created: 31st October, 2017

Pixel-based font based on Acclaim's Extreme-G on the Nintendo 64. Plenty of custom characters included. Enjoy!

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8 0951 Published: 29th December, 2019
Last edited: 22nd July, 2019
Created: 20th August, 2013

A recreation of the font used in Midway's 'Arch Rivals', an arcade game originally released in 1989. It's actually the font taken from Miway's own 'Rampage' (1986), but expanded upon with a complete set of lowercase letters and additional punctuation.

This is a clone of Rampage

Monospaced

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11 01031 Published: 29th July, 2019
Last edited: 29th July, 2019
Created: 29th July, 2019

The base font from the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game Beyond Oasis (AKA The Story of Thor). It's another straight glyph dump with my usual additions of smart quotes and inverted ? and ! symbols; an @ sign (not found in the actual game) has also been added based on the game's copyright symbol.

Enjoy!

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24 12771 Published: 17th April, 2019
Last edited: 17th April, 2019
Created: 9th April, 2019

Recreaction of the in-game font from Koei's strategy games Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This includes a basic (but slightly incomplete) set of hiragana and katakana glypns. Aside from my usual inclusion of smart quotes and inverted ! and ?, this is a straight glyph dump.

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53 01722 Published: 7th February, 2019
Last edited: 7th February, 2019
Created: 9th May, 2013

Taken from the story screens from Capcom's 1989 arcade brawler Final Fight. (Interestingly, this font can also be found in the tile set from the Street Fighter 2 arcade game). Accented letters are completely custom.

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56 01794 Published: 23rd January, 2019
Last edited: 24th January, 2019
Created: 28th August, 2013

A fairly obscure video game font for you, this being the serifed font from thte 'Puyo Puyo' series of video games (if that name sounds unfamiliar, these games were reskinned in North American and released as 'Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine' and 'Kirby's Avalanche'.)

The base alphabet, numbers, and several punctuation are all authentic to the game (the inverted ? and ! are always easy to make, which is why I always include them, even if not a part of the game proper). However, there's plenty of custom glyph work here with the punctuation and the accented lettering.

Enjoy!

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14 42720 Published: 23rd May, 2017
Last edited: 23rd May, 2017
Created: 31st January, 2017

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0 01061 Published: 31st March, 2017
Last edited: 4th April, 2017
Created: 31st March, 2017

Here's a font that'll stir up memories for every amateur graphic designer around during the mid 1980s: The main font from Broderbund's Print Shop application. As typical of my retro-based fonts, with a few exceptions (the curly quotes and inverted question and exclamation marks), this is a straightforward glyph dump taken from the Apple IIgs version (which can be played with on Archive.org here: <https://archive.org/details/a2gs_Print_Shop_1987_Broderbund>).

14 11020 Published: 30th January, 2017
Last edited: 28th January, 2017
Created: 27th January, 2017

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26 1980 Published: 10th January, 2017
Last edited: 20th April, 2019
Created: 28th October, 2016

Recreation of a font used by Rareware.

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7 11032 Published: 20th December, 2016
Last edited: 3rd December, 2016
Created: 17th November, 2016

Another video game font, this one taken from Tad Corporation's 1989 arcade game 'Toki'; this same font would be used by Tad in the 1990 game 'Blood Bros.' Aside from smart quotes and the inverted question and exclamation marks, this is a straight glyph dump.

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0 0952 Published: 13th December, 2016
Last edited: 13th November, 2021
Created: 5th October, 2014

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0 24282 Published: 12th March, 2016
Last edited: 14th March, 2016
Created: 25th August, 2015

A tech-inspired font.

At present, Twenty:Fifteen is serving as a template as to what I want the final font to look like, which, unfortunately, exceeds Fontstruct's current abilities regarding curved lines. Additinally, I am planning on creating a more complex font that features an expanded set of two- and three-character ligature glyphs. For those reasons, I do not intend on making Twenty:Fifteen available for download here on Fontstruct.

Feel free to drop some comments and let me know what you think.

72 368617 Published: 13th January, 2015
Last edited: 25th June, 2015
Created: 21st October, 2014
Here it is, several months after being introduced, a downloadable version of Harrison Mono. Again, if you have any question about this font, please comment below. Enjoy!

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466 01014 Published: 23rd May, 2013
Last edited: 10th May, 2013
Created: 9th May, 2013
I'm sure everyone's seen Capcom's "trademark" font in its 8x8 glory. This is a larger version of that same font as seen in the HUD and "win quote" screens from Street Fighter II. I opted to make this a proportional font simply because I didn't want very much white space around the letters and numbers. Only custom characters are the obvious -- curly quotes, inverted question mark and exclamation point. Enjoy!

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63 533118 Published: 29th April, 2013
Last edited: 21st August, 2015
Created: 11th February, 2013
I had wanted to come up with a cursive-styled font using only rather basic lines and curves, so this is what I came up with. While it's not a "proper" cursive (not many character pairings have a traditional flow), it does have some cursive-style mannerisms. Enjoy! UPDATES: * 2014.05.30: To take advantage of FontStruct's new nudge feature, all glyphs with curved tops and bottoms have been adjusted. * 2013.05.07: Altered the positioning of the superscript 1, 2, and 3; realigned the already esiting 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 fraction characters; added new fraction characters; added complete set of numeric superscript and subscript characters; modified the "f combination" ligatures for more consistency. * 2013.05.20: The tildes have been corrected. I don't know why, but they somehow looked like backwards Ns instead of what they should look like. Additionally, I made a small alteration to the lowercase V character to make it look equally uniform to the other lowercase characters. * 2013.05.26: Added some letterlike characters to the mix. * 2013.05.28: More edits, but this time, I've gone ahead and added a few touches to make most -- not all -- of the lowercase letters flow into each other. I was flirting with the concept of having the bars of the lowercase Ts linked to the other lowercase characters, but thought against it (especially since I'm planning on expanding the character set even further). * 2013.06.04: Slight touch-ups. Slight alterations made to the Ç (uppercase C cedilla) and ç (lowercase c cedilla). Added ligatures for "dz", "ij", "lj", and "nj", as well as some new currency symbols. Moved the Won sign into the appropriate position.

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1 31002 Published: 3rd April, 2013
Last edited: 17th September, 2017
Created: 7th August, 2012
Here's one straight from the 16-bit era of gaming. This comes from two Zyrinx-produced games for the Sega Genesis: SubTerrania (from this font is named) and Red Zone. This has an interesting "reverse italic" look to it, as it visually appears that most of the characters are leaning to the left. This is currently a "what you see is what you get" typeface; all the characters present here come straight from SubTerrania's high score screen (except for the ¿ and ¡, which are the original characters rotated 180 degrees).

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16 0981 Published: 17th February, 2013
Last edited: 19th February, 2013
Created: 8th February, 2013
This is a "smoother" version of the Ryden MK2 font I had published in 2012. As is with the original font, this one doesn't contain any characters that weren't in the original game. Enjoy!

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16 0982 Published: 5th February, 2013
Last edited: 17th February, 2013
Created: 24th January, 2012
Another video game font, this one from the second game in the popular Raiden shoot-'em-up series (Seibu Kaihatsu, 1994). With the exception of the W character (which is appears flipped horizontally in-game), this is more or less a straight character dump. Of note are the small numbers, which appear whenever a medal is collected.

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24 01565 Published: 21st October, 2011
Last edited: 11th August, 2011
Created: 28th January, 2011
My first video-game inspired font, this comes from a trio of arcade games produced by Taito: Puchi Charat, Cleopatra Fortune, and Bust-A-Move 2. A couple notes about this font: (1) All the characters in this font are designed to fit into an 8x16 template; (2) The form of the capital Q is accruate to the games,but has been slightly stretched vertically to give the letter more uniformity amongs the other capitals; (3) The accented characters are completely improvised, and do not appear in any of the games; (4) The only currency symbols included are the dollar and yen signs.

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62 02242 Published: 17th May, 2011
Last edited: 8th July, 2014
Created: 25th June, 2010
Here's a throwback and a tribute to the old scoreboards of Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome. The main alphabet, numbers, and some of the punctuation (the period, the apostrophe, and the T-shaped ampersand) are accurate to the original dot-matrix displays. However, much of the punctuation had to be improvised (there is no evidence of a question mark or comma being used on these scoreboards), as are the accented characters. Updated on April 9, 2014: I made a slight modification on the colon and semicolon after a recent search on photos of the old Astrodome's scoreboard.

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86 25165 Published: 15th April, 2011
Last edited: 12th February, 2016
Created: 15th April, 2011
Here is the fourth -- and final -- unique font to come from the ImageWriter II. I had a bit of difficulty trying to copy this from a standard printout using my ImageWriter II's without manipulation. Each character in the ImageWriter II's "Near Letter Quality" (NLQ) mode jammed a 16x14 character into what would normally be an 7x7 template. I wound up figuring out that the ImageWriter printed each character's odd-numbered pixel rows before printing out the even-numbered pixel rows. Ultimately, I caught a rather (un)lucky break after the printer would mess up after the odd-numbered pixel row printout. This worked out because I was able to separate the alternating rows, then I spliced them back together. Getting back to the font's attributes, ImgWriter NLQ, much like my previous ImgWriter entries, features characters that were not a part of the original design -- accented capital letters, the "fi" and "fl" ligatures, the yen and Euro symbols, fractions, et. al. The only character in this font that is not monospaced is the ellipses (or "dot-dot-dot"); this was made to be a double-spaced character to cut down on the white space between periods. Enjoy! -------- 2014.04.15: Small update includes combining diacritic marks; this was done to circumvent a bug in some Mac programs where the accented characters wouldn't appear correctly after typing in Option+N then N, for example. (Last updated on 2013.05.06: Includes a greatly expanded character set.)

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56 05194 Published: 8th April, 2011
Last edited: 5th April, 2016
Created: 21st March, 2011
Another font based on Apple's old ImageWriter II printer. This variation of the font originally followed a strict "dot matrix" pixel layout -- none of the dots nestle into a triangle shape. -------- 2014.04.15: Small update includes combining diacritic marks; this was done to circumvent a but in some Mac programs where the accented characters wouldn't appear correctly after typing in Option+N then N, for example.

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72 02123 Published: 6th April, 2011
Last edited: 19th April, 2011
Created: 5th January, 2011
A slightly modified version of the small font used on the TI-83 and TI-84 calculator families.

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48 25299 Published: 6th April, 2011
Last edited: 8th January, 2016
Created: 10th March, 2011
Here is another font coming from the Imagewriter II printer to your hard drive's font folder. This font is based on the printer's built-in proportional character set. As was the case with my previous IMGwriter fonts, this includes characters (such as accented capitals and Greek characters) that are not originally part of the printer's default character sets. UPDATES: * 2014.04.15: Small update includes combining diacritic marks; this was done to circumvent a bug in some Mac programs where the accented characters wouldn't appear correctly after typing in Option+N then N, for example. * 2013.05.27: Greatly extended the character set.

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104 15728 Published: 2nd November, 2010
Last edited: 4th January, 2016
Created: 31st October, 2010
A variant on my ImgWriter font. This time, the characters are white on a black background. -------- 2014.04.15: Small update includes combining diacritic marks; this was done to circumvent a but in some Mac programs where the accented characters wouldn't appear correctly after typing in Option+N then N, for example. I also altered the "A with Ring Above" characters to look more consistent with the original version of the font. 2013.07.16: Slightly changed the appears of the 5 character in the superscript, subscript, and numberform characters. Update: As was the case with the black-on-white version of this font, the character sets have been expanded. Unfortunately, while this does have superscript and subscript numbers, the fraction slash character wouldn't work as a zero-width character without mucking up any subscript and superscript characters. ----- Made public on 2010.11.01 Last updated on 2010.05.23 (Dates based on California time)This is a clone of ImgWriter Draft

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213 972820 Published: 30th October, 2010
Last edited: 13th September, 2016
Created: 27th October, 2010
This font is based on one of the fonts used by the Apple ImageWriter II dot-matrix printer. Included with this font are the basic Greek alphabet and the Japanese Katakana lettering. ---- Made public on 2010.10.30 2014.04.15: Small update includes combining diacritic marks; this was done to circumvent a but in some Mac programs where the accented characters wouldn't appear correctly after typing in Option+N then N, for example. 2013.07.16: Slightly changed the appears of the 5 character in the superscript, subscript, and numberform characters. Last updated: 2013.05.04... This font was taken down briefly mainly so I could bolster the font by adding several new glyphs -- including superscript and subscript numbers, fractions, and even some image images that you'd expect to see on your computer screen. (Dates based on California time.)

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226 01014 Published: 2nd April, 2023
Last edited: 13th March, 2023
Created: 9th May, 2013

Clone of Capcom Serif Large, but edited to look more typographically consistent. Enjoy! (Renamed from "v2" to "Remix" because it just sounds better; no other edits have been made.)

This is a clone of Capcom Serif Large

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John H. Isles (QXZ), FontStructions

Oregon Bound

XG1 Pixel

Arch Rivalry

Thor's Oasis

San Gokushi

Metro City 1989

PuyoPuyo Serif

GaiaLess

That Old Printing Shop

Shien no Fukushuu

Rareware V.1

TadCorp

Williams Bally Midway Small

Twenty:Fifteen

Harrison Mono

Capcom Serif Large

Qursifus

Sub Terran

Ryden MK2 DX

Ryden MK2

Petit Carat

60s Scoreboard

ImgWriter NLQ

ImgWriter Pica

TI84 Small

ImgWriter Variable

Recoleta

ImgWriter Draft White on Black

ImgWriter Draft

Capcom Serif Large Remix

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