A font based on the date stamps superimposed on photos taken with an old Sony Cybershot digital camera, exact model unknown, circa 2000.
IMPORTANT: This is NOT a 100 percent accurate recreation of Sony's original font! I do not have access to the original camera itself, only the photos taken with it. Only the characters which appear in said photos are direct copies: digits 0-9, and letters A-G, J, L-P, R-V, and Y. The process of reconstructing these characters was one of trial and error, as I had to contend with both the non-integer scaling of the pixels and the loss of detail caused by JPG compression. However, I am quite confident that my recreations of the aforementioned characters are correct.
The rest of the characters, by contrast, are new fabrications, not directly copied from the original font— if, indeed, "the original font" existed in the first place. (A few design inconsistencies, such as E and F having their crossbars at different heights, suggest to me that they weren't all designed by the same person at the same time.) This meant I had to make a number of editorial decisions when designing them, especially given the limited 8x13 resolution. Some of them were done more-or-less from scratch, like H and I. Others were modifications of existing letters, like Q from O and X from Y. Others still, like W, took inspiration from other Sony fonts of a similar vintage, including SonyCam Original, Xane123's excellent recreation of the Sony Handycam font.
While the images I worked from only included letters and numbers, I went ahead and designed characters to fill out the Basic Latin character set. These too took inspiration from the above-mentioned sources. In fact, the asterisk character was taken directly from SonyCam Original— when cropped to content, it was exactly 8 pixels wide, and I hadn't been able to get the design working myself! I'm not exactly happy with all of them, but at some point I perfect becomes the enemy of good. If you have access to a Sony Cybershot camera with characters matching the authentic ones (0-9, A-G, J, L-P, R-V, Y), please leave a comment below! I would love to improve the authenticity of this font, if possible.
Recommended color value: #FF3925
Pixel-font reimagining of the (non-pixel/antialiased) font used in Psygnosis/Sony Interactive Entertainment's "wipE′out pṳrE" (2005) on the PlayStation Portable.
Some of the spacing and detail (particularly in the accented characters) has been slightly tweaked, compared to the original, to make characters better fit into a more internally-consistent structure. This recreation also fixes the "Ñ" character, which in the game uses a circumflex accent rather than a tilde.
Note that at the time of writing, this is my 1,500th pixel font (between original creations and the vast majority of game recreations).
Presenting HAL Laboratory (or HAL JP), Movic, Artmic and Sony APS's Gall Force: Eternal Story, released in 1986. This font is similar to Adventures of Lolo 2 and close to Eggerland: Sozo e no Tabidachi. This game was based on Movies. Also the number "8" Is a same number to Hudson Soft.
This is a clone of Eggerland: Sozo e no TabidachiThis is my recreation of the pixelated large font used on the Sony Digital Handycam DCR-TRV17, made through carefully copying each character pixel by pixel from pictures of the LCD screen.
As Handycams mainly use all capital letters (minus "InfoLITHIUM"), those are the only letters included. While the letters, numbers, and a couple punctuation were copied correctly, others are either based on existing characters or are from a screenshot of the CCD-TR728E demo on YouTube (for mostly accented characters. The Cyrillic characters won't be included unless a screenshot of the second page of letters is shown).