5x5 font with a distorted, skewed, or glitched look about it. Plays well with actual glitch effects.

I doubt the lowercase will look nearly as interesting, but I'll attempt it soon enough!

While I feel I'm nowhere near running out of new 5x5 designs, I am really stretching it to come up with unique 5x5 designs in the pixel format... we'll see if I can keep managing it ;)

MORE GEMSCRIPT VARIATIONS

Runic alphabet of the Ormumi, a race of orange-skinned cyclopean humanoids native to several planets in several of my own video games.

Pixel demake of Xenolifer. Check Xenolifer's page for the origin story.

5 rows, 5 columns, 5 minutes. 5 is a fun number to work with, don't you think?

Font used in my game "Anime Girls vs. The Cavemen". UPPERCASE for the caveman speak, lowercase for the anime speak.

A design inspired by mineshafts and the wood scaffolds which are built to shore up tunnels in order to prevent them from collapsing.

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

A fairly standard 5x5 design with a little added flair. The sort of text you might expect to see in fantasy maps and atlases.

Uppercase only!

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Lawgivers' font. Vertical members are doubled, horizontal members are not - except when needed to complete vertical members. Overhangs and bends help to make glyphs more distinctive.

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

A 6x6 font made to look thief-esque. Like a master thief, it attempts to hide in plain sight - putting on an "official" look, or even one that's reminescent of Merchants Guild. But something's wrong. Parts of it are a bit crooked, and the trained eye can easily see it for what it is. APPREHEND IT!

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

5x5 pixel font in which no lines are allowed to bend or touch at all. Where they would bend or touch, they are segmented instead.

Possible non-game uses for this: Circuit design, light arrangement, wiring design, αPX electronics...

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

5x5 boldtype.

Original size: 4.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Handwritten medieval pixel font in 6x6. I'll give it kerning soon, although I suspect this will be of little benefit to most users (myself included).

This one is made to have an eloquent, enchanting look - the sort of look merchants might use to advertise and sell goods.

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

Handwritten medieval pixel font in 5x5. This one has a subtle rightward momentum which is imparted by the slants of letters and the positions of curves/angle changes. The idea is a font that inspires one to continue forward and onward. :^)

These Guild fonts are meant to convey the idea of different professions while using extremely small canvases. They're small enough to be used on practically any computer system or game console.

Original size: 4.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Another conlang/conscript from my own works. These are the Symbols of Starborn Lightness used by Asgari.

Asgari is an artificial sun orbiting Gara, an interstellar planet. It was built to use Starborn Lightness symbols as concept-units in order to electronically convey information to the Garai people about itself. So, these symbols were originally something like status indicators. Until C.Y. 1997, they could be seen on displays in the Celestial Telemetry Room at Magong Stack One in Upper Netazeca.

However, some Garai re-used the symbols to make constructed languages and ciphers. Monsaic Sun is unique among these in that it uses only the existing symbols, without any alteration. So this font can be used to write either language.

Appears in: Seven Candles Trilogy (2013)

A highly exclusive language used by Ashrians on Bysonce Island, Planet Ashr in my video game Endless Sea of Stars. This one is used for private documents and old government records, and its brother language Eudastiphos Hand is used for public court documents.

Zheyl the Voice of Declaration is the only one alive who knows how to write this language fluently, and one of the only ones who knows how to speak it at all. Well, except for me. :^)

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Calystiphos Hand is much simpler than its brother language, despite looking much more complicated. Each glyph refers to highly specific concepts and so it is most used to record time-tested, factual information rather than stories or fiction. However, these glyphs can still be considered as runes, as each one is host to whole mysteriums of information and idiomatic knowledge which have been associated with it.

Bysoncians use a base-8 system of numeracy. 9 would thus be written as 81, 10 as 82, etc. There is no numeral 9.

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Calystiphos is the Ashrian god of siroccos. The simplest way to put it is to say that he represents the "yin" of the pantheon.

A written court language used by Ashrians on Bysonce Island, Planet Ashr in my video game Endless Sea of Stars. This one is used for public court documents, and its brother language Calystiphos Hand is used for private documents and old government records.

These glyphs could be considered a form of shorthand unto themselves, since each court stenographer has its own way of writing these down and its own way of abbreviating or embellishing them. Through knowledge of these glyphs and their accompanying interpretation, one can surmise all of the important proceedings and notes.

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Common methods for stenographers to alter these glyphs involve:

- Adding/removing quadrants

- Crossing out one or more elements in colored ink

- Drawing connecting lines between points within one or more quadrants

- Inscribing shorthand or marginalia within negative spaces

- Marking or coloring within the central circle

- Shading via different means (scribbling, crosshatching, or with colors)

- Rotating a quadrant upon its own axis

It's important to note that stenographers also often write (either in Royal Bysoncian, Sea Bysoncian or Voktlandish) in accompaniment with these symbols. The idea is for each stenographer to come up with a system of encoding that works for it. Eudastiphos Hand could thus be considered an amalgamate, interlingual cipher built from other Ashrian languages.

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In terms of Earth languages, this is most readily compared to Nsibidi.

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Eudastiphos is the Ashrian god of mistrals. The simplest way to put it is to say that he represents the "yang" of the pantheon.

Font used for header text in "Ecologica", a sim game I developed in 2013.

Only the characters from the original font were included.

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

Recreation of a design from 2011. This was used for the logo and certain menu text in my most treasured and popular video game, "Seven Candles", so it was designed to write only a few words - Seven, Candles, Save, Lines, etc.

This will eventually be used in the remake as well, once I get around to that...

This is a logotype, so it only has a few letters in it. No more glyphs are planned.

Font used for signs in the 11th Heaven BBQ Bar'n'Grill Casino in my game Trap Farmer Brer Brah.

See also:Rivet City

Original size: 8.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Another attempt at the challenging 4x4 grid. Only those characters which I could fit into the 4x4 grid were included. This time, I think I managed to get near the level of quality and style typical of a 5x5 font!

This is probably the smallest font most people would ever want to use for general reading. It took no trivial amount of experience and experimentation to come up with!

If you use this to make assets, you can use color separation to fit 4 glyphs onto an 8x8 tile or 16 onto a 16x16 tile. Check out my profile page for more microfonts you can use in your games!

Original size: 3pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A 9x7 font made by request for a particular PSP homebrew games developer.

This particular font, when displayed onscreen, always has a duplicated version of itself underneath at 50% opacity (see sample).

Condensed version of Portable Vengeance. Most letters are 4x5.

Font built on a dotted grid. The sort of font you might create with a geoboard.

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!

Semibold version of Nobody's Treasure. Most glyphs have the same width as before, and the overall width of the font is the same.

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)

A well-known font from Duke Nukem 3D. This font came in two versions: "big" and "small". Both versions only have uppercase, so I put the small variant on the lowercase.

Since the original was a bitmap font which used multiple colors, I stuck to drawing the outlines. This lets you color them in how you like.

The small variant has its own symbols and numerals as well; most are already in this font, replacing the empty spaces left by the big variant.

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

A font which appears in "Defender/Joust" (1995) on Game Boy. This font is complete within the ROM, so only the original characters are included.

This font is used for Defender's menus and gameplay.

The placement of glyphs within the individual 8x8 tiles suggests that this font is meant to be monospaced. I've squinted at this one long enough... it looks right to me! :D

A font which appears in "Defender/Joust" (1995) on Game Boy. This font is nearly complete within the ROM, so only "1" and "2" were added.

This font appears within the starting screens, and is barely used at all...