Recreation of the pixel font from the arcade version of Data East's "Midnight Resistance" (1989).
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (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 Capcom's "Final Fight" (1989).
This font is used in the intro cinematic. In the original, the double quotes are awkwardly split over two tiles. This recreation combines them into a single character. The recreation also corrects the missing antialiasing in the "3". However, it retains the original minus/dash (as seen in the character bio sheets), which is far too high.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. As the font relies on antialiasing, I did not create a separate monochromatic version of the font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a cloneRecreation of the "futuristic" pixel font from Dinamic Software's "After the War" (1989) on the ZX Spectrum.
This font is used in the second part of the game. This recreation corrects the awkwardly inconsistent line height between the alphanumeric characters and the punctuation characters. Note that the Amstrad CPC version uses a different, much blockier font for this part of the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of After the War (Amstrad/Spectrum)Recreation of the small proportional pixel font from Mark Cale/System 3's "Myth: History in the Making" (1989).
This small version was only used in the ZX Spectrum version, not on the Amstrad CPC.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the proportional pixel font from Mark Cale/System 3's "Myth: History in the Making" (1989) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
Note that while the letters are proportional, the numbers are all set to a fixed width.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from ERE Informatique/Exxos' "Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers" (aka "Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess", 1989). Only the characters used in the game (including the French and German versions) have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy III - Fantasy World Dizzy" (1989) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
The same font is used in all subsequent "Dizzy" adventure games - "Dizzy 3 and a Half - Into Magicland" (1991), "Dizzy IV - Magicland Dizzy" (1991), "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991), and "Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1992).
Note that "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991) uses the "66" style left quotation marks (U+201C) at the start of any speech, while in all other games the "Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark" (U+201F) is used.
"Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988) already used an early version of this font, but with fewer special characters. One major difference is the single quote/apostrophe character - compared to all later games, which use a "9" style apostrophe, "Dizzy II" used a straight diagonal small one. This has been included in this recreation, mapped to "Right Single Quotation Mark" (U+2019).
Also note that the egg character - used to indicate lives in game - is mapped to "black circle" (U+25CF).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 06/2023: added the apostrophe from "Dizzy II", added the "66" style left quotation mark, and confirmed that this same font is used for the rest of the series, and on all other 8-bit platforms.
Recreation of the small pixel font from NMK/Jaleco's "Saint Dragon" (1989).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Saint Dragon (Small)Recreation of the small pixel font from NMK/Jaleco's "Saint Dragon" (1989).
Note that the original colour version of this font uses some antialiasing, particularly in punctuation characters like the "&". This recreation is non-antialiased reinterpretation of those characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
There was no glyphs latin on Patrick H. Lauke Redux's font so go check it out: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1644314/akumajo-densetsu-nes
I used to clone them, so I can help Patrick Lauke to complete this font with letters on it.
This is a clone of Akumajō Densetsu (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Willow" (1989) on the NES.
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 pixel font from Horror Soft/Adventure Soft's "Personal Nightmare" (1989) on the Amiga.
Oddly, for their Atari and MS-DOS release, they opted for a much simpler/cleaner font, so this quirky version is exclusive to the Amiga.
Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Hyper Dyne: Side Arms" (1989) on the Turbografx-16/PC Engine.
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 Hyper Dyne: Side Arms (PC Engine)Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Hokuto no Ken - Shin Seikimatsu Kyūseishu Densetsu" (aka "Hokuto No Ken II", 1989) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The game was released in the west as "Last Battle: Legend of the Final Hero", but without the original "Fist of the North Star" license, and with many gameplay aspects (most notably, character names and the level of gore) changed.
Note that this version only includes the punctuation marks used in the original Japanese game. For the western release, a different set was used.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. Some of the core katakana characters were missing, so I added them from similar more complete fonts. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned next to their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
With the exception of the handful of extra katakana glyphs, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Super Mario Land" (1989) on the Game Boy. The same font was reused in other games like "Tetris" (1989), "Dr. Mario" (1990) and "Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3" (1994). Only the characters present in the game ROM have been included.
Update: removed a stray extra pixel in the "9".
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Vic Tokai's "Clash at Demonhead" (aka "Dengeki Big Bang!", 1989) on the NES.
Note that the game features two distinct exclamation marks ... the second/straight one has been mapped to "inverted exclamation mark" (U+00A1).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, 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 large pixel font from Taito's "Darius" (1987), also reused in "Darius II" (1989).
In the tile set for "Darius", the "$" was missing a few pixels - this was addressed in "Darius II", and this recreation contains the dollar sign from the latter version.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Masaya/NCS' "Shockman" (aka "Kaizō Chōjin Schbibinman 2: Aratanaru Teki", 1989, 1992) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
This font is used in the western release for all dialog boxes.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.