Experimental cyberpunk robot mosaic thing.

It gives me a strong "system font" feeling and seems like something that might be included with the OS of some futuristic tech deck. If the Fairlight Excalibur from Shadowrun Returns had its own font, this could be it!

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Original size: 21pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

A modernized, rounded, and truncated version of Marengi. This is made to be a good chat font. It has very few kerning pairs, so it should render fine in any software.

Ascenders are only allowed to be as tall as the uppercase/numerals, while descenders are allowed to go 2px below the line. This creates a natural line spacing that is readable and not too dense. (Diacritics break this rule, of course... darn them...)

Gone are the curved termini on letters like gjty. The simpler geometry makes this design more suited to speedreading than its predecessor.

Just before publishing this, I realized it looks a lot like F77 Sodmast... but a close look should reveal plenty of differences...

MIV: 8.94

Original size: 10.5pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

The Zephiest of designs - a gaggle of Roman columns with gongs stacked on them.

Version 1.4

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A font made in the proto-calligraphic style I invented and used when I was a teenager. I haven't owned a nibbed pen since those days, so this font is as far as the style was ever allowed to evolve. It's somewhat lacking the handwritten character my writing had, but this regularity is the result I was trying to achieve. Back then, I wanted my writing to look like this. I had no particular use in mind for the style other than titling documents. For that reason I consider this to be a Headliner.

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Variations which others made on this design persist and are known as the Xscript family. "Xscript" is what I used to call this sort of calligraphy for lack of a better name.  You can see Xscript all over the PDF materials for Alpha Draconis, a fantasy pen-and-paper RPG I designed in 2004, as well as FLAK 3, a futuristic pen-and-paper RPG which was scrapped and had its good ideas (along with FLAK 2's) put into another system. Additionally, there is Pledgefield, which is a variation of this design that's based on how I thought a fancy woodcut version might look.

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NOTES:

- This is Pixel Optimized at 2x size and greater, and can be optimized at 1x size by doubling the letterspacing.

- "I" is kerned to itself so that it can be used to make Roman Numerals I, II, and III.

Alternate take on Nirvanite, this time with bullseyes rather than solid circles as the large segments.

This one is a lot more organic than its predecessor, but also a lot more confusing. Looks like clusters of alien tadpole eggs to me!

If this design is modified, it will break. But, it has been tested and seen to produce no graphical glitches.

A slightly chimeric sci-fi design with no relation to Space Blam, Space Clam, Space Cram, Space Dam, Space Fam, Space Flam, Space Gram, Space Ham, Space Jam, Space Kazaam, Space Ma'am, Space Pram, Space Ram, Space Sam, Space Slam, Space Tram, or Space Yam.

In making this I attempted to achieve a harmony between angles and curves. You can see it especially well on "B" and "&".

A medium-res pixel font I designed in 2017 for printing the text of "The Story of Book" (TSoB), a tale which began life as an imaginary joke story and then was actually committed to paper.

TSoB is woven from my and my friends' whims, flights of fancy, in-jokes, and intentional idiocy, as well as contributions from several AIs. The resulting story changes tone, style, mood, and context at seeming random, and is subversive toward its media and reader beyond insufferability. All this was done just to make Trap Farmer Brer Brah slightly more interesting to the very few people who will ever bother to get and read The Story of Book in-game. So this font is based on an Easter egg.

Experimental mosaic... or maybe a new mineral species?

This one started as a doodle. I began placing circles to see what kinds of complex shapes I could make, and this was the result.

It achieves a new visual effect at almost every size up to the original. Also try slowly moving the zoom slider for some interesting animations!

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This font is now nearly 1MB in size! I guess it has to do with the intrinsic complexity of circles.

Experimental 24-segment display or massive monochrome Mondrian matrix. Pixel compatible!

The thinking behind this one was that with incongruously sized segments arranged in the proper way, I would create a design which was effectively 5x5, but which accomodated more glyphs than 5x5 usually does. Negative space is incorporated into the structure of many glyphs, though not enough to classify this as an IVO design.

"Qualtron" is the name of an imaginary entity that a friend believed in - a being meant to represent the result of "a mathematical equation that can rule the universe". I didn't inquire further about it... :D

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Design Rules:

1. Segments can have interior length/width of 2 or 5.

2. The central 2x2 square must always remain open.

3. Square bricks and 90-degree angles only.

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Original size: 20.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A fusion of art deco- and Navajo-style design. Well, many civilizations used a square zigzag pattern such as this, but "Navajo" always comes first to mind when I look at this design.

The tilde is more ostentatious than the other diacritics because this is made for a Spanish-speaking friend!

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See also: Badwolf

Another of my many doodles. Fun to make!

Finally, a design where all the diacritics blend in and look natural!

Version 2.3

15SEP2018: I have begun adding diacritics, but they must be made subtractively to fit into the design rules. I delete the diamonds around them which lends accented letters an open-topped appearance. This method is experimental but the result seems readable enough to me...

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Inspired by a comment by jonrgrover.

I built diamonds sized according to the Fibonacci series, then made a design out of them. The design was then carved away and modified to make the glyphs you see here. I used the members 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8. These sizes proved most feasible to work with in this sort of arrangement.

I gave the terminals a flared appearance which I think makes the glyphs' outlines look slightly Celtic. The design makes me think of beach sand and things found on the beach - shells, pretty rocks, and so on.

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This font is not to be confused with "Diamondized". :D

An experiment in subtle asymmetry (it's most evident in the upper case).

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Version 1.7 (14Sep2018) - ExtL-A added, GFB completed, Greek started

Version 1.6 (18Aug2018) - Changed name from "RC Badwolf" to "Badwolf"

Version 1.5 (15Aug2018) - altered 2357,ð

Version 1.4 (14Aug2018) - altered space width and mw

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See also:Navajo Deco

A fusion between Roman-style text and pixel art - the sort of font that might have existed in old 80s font software. It's fairly wide and something of a colossus among pixel fonts, hence the name "Verbossus".

This is kerned, but not entirely. I plan for more language support so I don't yet know the entire list of combinations that will need kerning.

In publishing this I've now shared over 30,000 glyphs!

Original size: 13pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A 7x7 outline design which is made to form solid-looking masses from the glyphs while still allowing the outer perimeters of words to take on some unique shapes.

Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A design with long ascenders and descenders, even on letters that don't normally have them. Good for "old book" text in video games.

This is used in ESOSVM for most text which occurs while the player is in the dimension "Ladede", thus the name. Ladede has a canon, cosmology, and eventing which are seeded by in-jokes relating to roguelike games, especially Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. A font like this, in that context, is meant to be slightly elegant but also slightly mocking, so as to seem subtly adversarial as roguelike game elements are wont to do.

A 117-segment display made to have a more "mosaic" look. Try using this one at odd sizes, especially with antialiasing off! The resulting distortions occur in a consistent way which leads to many new uses for the font.

Original size: 38pt

Version 1.4

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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.

Bookish pixel font designed for general reading. Made for use in my own future web designs.

Version 1.5

3x3 slab serif. This is based on Wallerton, Anachronistic Gunslinger, an IRC-based "TV show" which I used to write and produce. All the characters in the show were my AIs pretending they were cowboys.

Well, I managed to successfully produce a lowercase for this one!

Recommended: Use with kerning.

A fan request. This is Minecraft's in-game text font, truncated to fit into a smaller grid and then edited for consistency.

The outstanding "F77 Minecraft" by Se7enty-Se7en was used as a reference in drawing these glyphs.

Feel free to use this for your fan games / mods / whatever! :D

Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Pixel cursive, mostly on a 5x5 grid. Maybe this is the terminal font for some cybernetic old lady's computer? :D

It was possible to build every letter in 5x5, but it honestly looks far better when letters with descenders are allowed to descend a bit. This also works to increase the line spacing, which this font really needs for readability.

Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

An experiment to see how good of a hex grid I could make with just the hex brick. Answer: Pretty good!

(Use _ for the blank grid.)

This is capable of some pretty convincing "TV static" type effects, too!

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Some letters were recently reworked to make them more consistent with the others in height.

Version 14

My attempt at a small-form polygonal sans-serif. This is based partly on the 16-segment circle I used to make "Circlets" and "Misplaced Baubles".

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This has proven to be my most popular font around the web, at least in terms of favorites. If you'd like to see support for your language added, post a comment and let me know which letters are missing.

Pixellated Proxima Punch. It's art deco for your ancient compy box! New smaller grid, same great taste.

Original size: 6pt. Use multiples of this value for pixel perfection. However, this one has been noted to look great at almost every smaller size. Try 7pt, 8pt, 9pt, etc. for slight variations on the look!

A semi-bold Diabolicious. It is the same width and size as the original!

Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Recommended: Use with kerning turned ON!

Pixel gothic somethingorother. Diabolical + Malicious = Diabolicious.

Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Recommended: Use with kerning turned ON!

My attempt at a headliner font. This is made to look very regular, even "generic", but also very clearly readable - the sort of font you might expect to see in advertising agencies, publishing houses, hospitals, and government buildings.

Uppercase only.

Use with kerning turned ON!

Lowercase only!

This font used to be the lowercase for Spacekapitan. I cloned Spacekapitan so I could keep this, then reworked Spacekapitan into what it is now. Then I continued working on this font to make it the best it could be, and here we see the result. It has almost nothing but 90-degree angles.

This is mostly built around a 5x5 square which makes its way into most glyphs in some way or another.

I think this would make a good companion font for "Your Quota".

Stylized 5x5 pixel font. Tiny but power-packed!

I designed it to have a slightly balloon-esque, oldschool arcade look. Feel free to use it in your games :D

This is also designed to answer the question of whether tiny pixel fonts can have distinctive styles that haven't been seen yet. Of course they can! See the 5x5 Collection for many more.

Original size: 7.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

I made a blocky, industrial sort of style, then added art deco-style line width variation. Then, a couple of tech lines here, a couple of details there, and SHAZAM! We get these 1950's-era raygun-toting space race zippity zap letters. It's a font Marvin the Martian might use...

Original size: 7px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A chimera which combines inline-versus-outline, maze, Gemscript, and other techniques to produce a timeless look.

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Original size: 6.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Design Rules:

1. Square bricks only.

2. A 1px soft border of negative space must exist between lines whenever possible.

3. Glyphs must fill the 9x9 grid to the greatest extent possible given the rounded style.

4. The set of glyphs shall be a heterogeneous mix of symmetrical and asymmetrical forms.

5. Negative space will replace positive in any situation wherein the small grid size or the geometry of a letterform would be detrimental to the chosen style. This includes all situations where any shape lacks at least a soft 1px border of negative space around it.

See also: Terran Pixelcruiser