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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 verbose and is something of a colossus among pixel fonts.
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Original size: 13pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Fontstruct's first vacuum tube font!
This is a design inspired by Nixie tubes. Since these "tubes" are iconographic, they could theoretically represent 12AX7s, 6L6s, KT88s, or whatever tube/valve you wanted. Feel free to clone and build on this concept.
Verbossus in sans-serif!
This is a clone of VerbossusFont from the ingame marquee display of Barcade Brawl, a 2015 game by yours truly. This was made to look similar to the system fonts from old arcade boards, PC microsystems, etc. You've probably seen the fonts I'm talking about; they're everywhere and many people refer to them singularly as "the arcade font" or "the NES font".
This is 7x7 with no wasted matrix, but it looks better without monospacing since not every glyph is the same width. It also makes a decent terminal & chat font, at least for those who don't care about the case of the messages they read and write.
Feel free to use this in your games, etc.!
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size 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...
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Original size: 7px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
I came up with an original high-res design, then brickswapped to turn everything into square bricks. The result sort of reminds me of Proxima Punch Pixel Squared, but less art deco and more computer-esque. It has a really old and naive look to it which could make it good for retro-terminal use.
"Buttons Foe" = "Obtuse Font". Not only is it an obtuse font in look and construction, it's reminescent of an era when computers were thought of as adversarial, magic voodoo boxes. So both the name and the anagram are equally applicable. :^)
This is SquaredEyes35. A pixel-art font I made to use in the games I make. Every Character is within the bounds of 3x5 pixels. I intended to only use uppercase, which is why lowercase is a bit low-effort. I hope it can be useful for whatever you need.
WIP
This is a clone of IATA Runway CA variant of "GP Cannon" which attempts to take advantage of antialiasing methods which are used on it. The "skeleton" of each letter hides under the scanlines, causing effects ranging from motion blur to a wet-marker look. It works as both a pixel font and a high-resolution font!
It gives me strong "Atari ST" vibes...
This is a clone of GP CannonThis is SquaredEyes57. A pixel-art font I made to use in the games I make. Every Character is within the bounds of 5x7 pixels. This is the second iteration of SquareEyes35, which was only 3x5 pixels and turned out to be way too hard to read for longer texts. I hope it can be useful for whatever you need.
This is a clone of SquaredEyes35Based on a font identification request over at Typography.guru.
A recreation of the typeface used for the titles of the film Sneakers, evidently inspired by the MICR aesthetics, filtered through the over-the-top flair of arcade video-games graphics.
Only |J|Q|Z| are done from scratch, but most letters still needed some interpretation in order to choose what to keep as a detail and what to discard as just an artefact.
As per the samples available, it's just uppercase (plus the lonely lowercase |c|).
It is possible that the original wasn't a pixel font after all, or that the pixels weren't square, and probably it had a higher resolution than 13×13.
Miiverse stamps from NES Remix 1&2.
Since miiverse shut down, I thought it would be nice to be able to use these stamps in some other way and this is the only one I could think of. Some have been altered from the original pixel art (like Wario) and mirrored versions of some characters and the speech/thought bubbles. And yes, this took a LONG time. All rights belong to Nintendo.
Derived from Nano OK, an earlier font of mine, but with more height and less weight on the capital letters. Having more height makes some of the punctuation less cramped as well. Extends 8 pixels above the baseline and 2 pixels below it. Variable width, with most capital letters 5 blocks wide, plus 1 more for spacing, and lower-case letters varying somewhat, though they are usually slightly narrower. Numbers are unusually narrow to help tell them apart from letters, and are between the lower-case and upper-case letters in height.
This is a clone of Nano OKKubasta is a monospaced pixel font designed with legibility in mind. The glyphs are easily distinguishable from one another and legible even in small sizes. It’s perfectly applicable for retro style interfaces and games.
An earlier version was created with BitFontMaker2 in 2014 and featured in Beat Cop by Pixel Crow.