***APRIL 2023 UPDATE***
A few more characters added and spacing of the "I" letters and their variants readjusted... Also, some characters redesigned... More to come...
An attempted recreaction of the Atari Games variation of the "Joystix", "Emulator" and "Emulogic" text fonts as used in-game and during tests from 1984 to 1998... Used in games such as Gauntlet, Xybots, Pit Fighter and Hard Drivin', among various others -- albeit with some custom deviations and extra characters NOT used in the actual text style itself... Also, upon further research, spacing between the actual letters vary by individual game (based on internal alpha tests)...
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated or associated with The E. W. Scripps Company or NetherRealm Studios (formerly Midway Games), a subsidiary of Warner Bros., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company... All contents and materials are properties of their respective owners. For entertainment, research, viewing and nostalgic purposes...
Recreation of the small pixel font from Quintet/Ancient/Enix's "Slapstick" (1994) on the SNES.
Note that the western release, "Robotrek", uses a different (and much blander/classic 8 bit) font.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main monospaced pixel font from Ape Inc./Hal Laboratory's "Mother 2: Gīgu no Gyakushū" ("MOTHER2ギーグの逆襲", 1994) on the Super Famicom/SNES.
This is notably different from the proportional font used in the western release, EarthBound.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters.
Note the superscript double zeroes have been mapped to the em dash (U+2015).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Software Creations/Sony Imagesoft's "Equinox" (aka "Solstice II", 1994). This font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
***SEPTEMBER 2020 UPDATE***
Some minor alterations to small letters... Additional letters coming soon...
Formerly known as "Fontality Caps Basic", this is an emulated font using letters similar to those seen in startup test sweeps of the old Midway and Williams video arcade games, such as Mortal Kombat, Narc, NBA Jam and Smash TV, among many others. The original 26-letter basic alphabet, some of the more common symbols and the numbers for the most part are replicas while the rest of them are made up to visually contour with the styles of their original parenting letters. I apologize I couldn't be any more accurate. But it's because no game as far as I know has an option in any of the tests to see a list of numbers, letters and symbols. So I had to improvise any way I could. I've been wanting a font like this but the only means of getting one as far as I know, was to make one myself!!!
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated or associated with The E. W. Scripps Company or NetherRealm Studios (formerly Midway Games), a subsidiary of Warner Bros., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All contents and materials are properties of their respective owners. For entertainment, research, viewing and nostalgic purposes.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's cartridge re-release of "Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1986), renamed/numbered as "Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1994), on the Famicom.
The re-release uses that same alphanumeric characters of the North America/Europe release of "The Legend of Zelda" (1987), but otherwise all characters remain the same. Note that the dakuten is used in the initial story screen as a double-quote character (which oddly is also the case in the North America/Europe version, even though these have a separate double-quote character).
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Taito Power Goal" (aka "Hat Trick Hero '95", 1994).
The uppercase and some of the punctuations marks are the same as "Gunlock" (1993), but this font includes a matching lowercase.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of GunlockRecreation of the pixel font from GameTek's "Brutal: Paws of Fury" (1994) on the SNES.
Note the "yin yang" symbol (U+262F) and the partial set of accented characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Bullfrog's "Syndicate" (1994) on the SNES.
Compared to the Amiga/Atari ST/PC version, the console version is monospaced, with wider characters that make better use of the 8×8 tiles.
Note the characters for the "A", "X", and "Y" controller buttons, which have been mapped to "enclosed alphanumerics" (U+24B6, U+24CD, and U+24CE respectively). Also note the weirdly chopped off "Z".
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Psikyo's "Gunbird" (1994), an evolution of the font used in "Samurai Aces" (aka "Sengoku Ace", 1993). Note the difference in the numbers, as well as the letters "I", "J", "i", "j", "l", "y". Letter spacing has been slightly tweaked for better balance and consistency.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Samurai Aces (Large)Recreation of the pixel font from Ancient's "Beyond Oasis" (aka "The Story of Thor", 1994) 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.
This is a clone of Beyond Oasis (Sega Mega Drive)