Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.
See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.
The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...
Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included
Version 1.5
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Experimental slab-serif. The added height from the serifs is quantized so that the serifs, rather than the normal lines, determine a glyph's geometry.
It reminds me of the Wild West and the old cartoon "The Jetsons" at the same time. It uses two kinds of serifs: normal slabs and "hangover" serifs. The hangovers are the ones that look like overhangs. Is there another name for them? I don't know.
This font is set to appear in several games at once! I'm not the developer of any of them! WOO
Despite what you may have heard, a "hoedown" is just a party.
Self-symmetrical/fractal pixel font. (x=2*Spx,y=5)
This is designed on 7x7 black boxes which act as superpixels. This ensures that inline and outline components are congruent.
Original size: 26pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
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 large pixel font from Human Entertainment's "Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-Arm" (aka "Bari-Arm", 1993) on the Sega CD/Sega Mega-CD.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" (1991).
This font is used for the score, "You win"/"You lose"/"Bonus stage"/"Start !" messages, and the after-fight taunts.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Note that in the game, only the uppercase characters are used. In the ROM, the lowercase characters are vertically misaligned - this recreation fixes this, setting them to the same baseline as the uppercase. Apart from this change, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Street Fighter II (Large)Self-symmetrical pixel fractal font. (x=3*Spx,y=25)
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- ITERATIONS -
x=1 - ESOS Lite Terminal
x=2 - Amalgarmada
x=3 - Amalgarmada 2 & Fractal 2 by jonrgrover
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Original size: 131pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
This is a clone of AmalgarmadaRecreation of the large proportional antialiased pixel font from Westone/Hudson Soft's "Riot Zone" (aka "Crest of Wolf", 1992) on the PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Sega's "Ristar" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large (16x16) pixel font from LJN/Software Creations' "Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage" (1994) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.