Updates:
Added Kana Extended and Kanbun
Formerly known as "Specula".
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By request, a font with the two-toned look of a Pokéball. No filters! The Pokédollar sign can be found on "¢" and a Pokéball is on "•".
"Eviolite" is an item that powers up the defenses of Pokémon that are not fully evolved. Looks like a lavender-colored gem.
A continuation of Tangereen. This version took a lot of figuring out and a lot of changes, both aesthetic and structural. I managed to make it different from other double-line designs like Glitzfang and Junglira while still keeping it simple and cute.
This is used in FS Tutorials, FS Idea Soup, FS Obscura, and most recently, AMFA's 3D printed parts.
This is a clone of TangereenA vaguely Courierlike OSD (Onscreen Display) font which tries its best to be casual. The name is inspired by the old computer joke: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
No filters or faux-beziers, just stock bricks and a bit of stacking/nudging!
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More about the design:
It started as a doodle and an attempt to make a smooth, low-resolution, low-poly font, and then it became a Courierlike. I have other fonts that tried to do polygonal round shapes before this (such as Cartoon Riot) but this design is my first real success in this area.
Initially, I made the angled glyphs before the round ones. I didn't want to change the angled ones, so glyphs like C, O, and Q became a bit wider than they are tall. I'm quite fond of this, because in most designs these glyphs tend to have a tall and narrow character. I think the mildly squat look of this font makes it cuter and gives it more personality.
A lot of glyphs were altered in specific ways to look more like metal type, especially anything with diacritics which touch the letters themselves. Other glyphs were altered specifically to be interpretable at small size. I also use angled contours and actual round bricks alongside each other within the same glyphs, another technique which is geared toward style and interpretability at small size.
This font came with many new challenges and an array of new techniques had to be designed. Loops were an insurmountable challenge because of the low resolution and heavy line weight, so I drew rounded areas to suggest them. You can see it on letters like Greek γ, ζ, and ξ.
An experimental design using 1/8 weight lines alongside 1/16 ones. The 1/8 lines are the smallest that can be accurately nudged. Centering them is still a problem at times, and I need a few impossible composites to perfect the glyphs ABEFHKQRXYijkx34789, but overall I'm quite fond of how this doodle turned out.
I think I could use some intensive compositing to get rid of the central dividing line in glyphs like A and H. I'll give it a try when I can.
Font 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)
The new Eyeball Kids™ from Pixel Kitchen® are the best way to get your child interested in experimenting with eyeballs. Color 'em! Italicize 'em! Throw 'em into oncoming traffic! Abuse 'em all you want because EYEBALL KIDS ARE ETERNAL.*
! ! ! DO NOT FEED EYEBALL KIDS AFTER MIDNIGHT ! ! !
* - Eternal under normal use conditions. See the enclosed manual for terms.
It took me so long damn it
original work by Sed4tives
This is a clone of STF_BLACKPAPERA font which uses some custom macaroni bricks. This one has the same kind of structural asymmetry as Phenomenologist. Angles and corners on the left are almost always sharper than those on the right, which gives glyphs a structural asymmetry as well as a sense of rightward momentum. This technique also imparts variation to some otherwise very similar letterforms (bdpq, mw, sz).
This is named for a species of android from Doctor Who.
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Other design decisions:
- Make the ascender height shorter than the uppercase
- Use squares for dots/diaresis and circles for punctuation, so that they are more quickly distinguished
- Allow the sharp curve and gentle curve to swap positions when it's beneficial to the glyph (BX8&)
- Incorporate angled lines into several glyphs so that none of the glyphs which have them seem out of place (SZsz012569*~$)
- Ignore the other design decisions for glyphs which need a standardized look due to their use in programming and other syntax-based forms of writing (most symbols & punctuation)
Iteration 4: Basic Latin kerning finished.
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DOODLE DOODLE DOODLE!
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Design Rules:
1. Letters with spurs will have the spur begin at the baseline. This provides the distinctive "high heeled" look.
2. Any letter whose traditional design has a straight vertical line on its left side will keep the line, no matter how the lines of the actual letter travel.
V0.2.6: Finished Cyrillic.
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A small scale faux-bezier design with a cutout-esque look. It offers different advantages at different sizes. Most glyphs are legible down to 4pt.
As this design evolves, it gives me an increasing "board games" feeling. This design seems very well-suited for board game parts, especially cards and smaller plastic pieces.
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This has a few notable design features:
- Asymmetry helps keep letters like bdpq from being confused for one another
- Serifs and flags accomplish the same thing for groups of similar letters such as ce and ftſ
- Semiserif style helps reduce the need for kerning to almost zero
- Simplified polygons and counter shapes help pixel optimization
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See also:Cartoon Riot
Semiserif semispur minimalism.
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This design uses a few novel glyph-shapes and techniques to achieve its look. Most notable of these is the serifed a which lets the serif protrude to the right. I avoid this feature in almost all designs, especially pixel fonts, because it adds an unnecessary 1px of spacing - but for this font, the feature can be included without changing anything for the worse. Many other glyphs have this same sort of protruding serif/spur, and the slanted geometry of the serifs/spurs affords them a look that "retreats" from neighboring glyphs, rather than seeming to protrude into them.
Ver. 1.0(Beta, 9.21.2021): 1st release
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Ver. 2.0(Beta): I found an Expert mode, so I added some Kanjis(一, 亜, 咽 and etc.)
Ver. 2.01(2022.05.22, Beta): More extended latin A and Added 31 Kanjis
Ver. 2.02(2022.05.25, Beta): Completed Latin ext_A block
Ver. 2.03(2022.05.26, Beta): Added CJK symbols block
Ver. 2.04(Beta): Plan of adding 20 Kanjis and Fixing glyph bugs
Ver. 2.05(2022.07.10, Beta): Added some of KS X 1001 symbols
Ver. 2.06(2022.07.11): Added 59 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 2.07(2022.07.12):Added some of Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.08(2022.07.13):Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis more Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.09(2022.07.14):Completed Latin Ext_B block and Added 15 glyphs of Hanjis and Fixed some of Hanji glyph's Bugs
Ver. 2.10(2022.07.18):Completed Hangul Compatibility Jamo Block and Added some glyphs of Latin Extended Additional Blocks
Ver. 2.11(2022.07.24):Completed Basic Russian Cylliric letters on 'Cylliric blocks'
Ver. 2.12(2022.07.25):More glyphs on Latin Exteneded Additional Blocks
-(CJK Unified Chinese Character Simplified Chinese Character Addition Start Time)------------------------------------------------------------
Ver. 3.0(2022.09.8~12): Added 30 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.1(2022.9.20): Some of more Kanjis
Ver. 3.1(2022.10.2~7): Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 3.2(2022.10.20~22): Added some of more kanjis
Ver. 3.21(2022.10.30): Added 8 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.3(2022.11.4):Added 10 glyphs of Latin and 6 glyphs of Hanguls
Ver. 3.4(2022.11.10):Added 21 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.22):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.24):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.42(2022.11.25):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.43(2022.12.17):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.5(2022.12.10):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.51(2022.12.21):Added 5 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.6(2023.03.13):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Added so far of unified Kanji(Chinese) counts:Total of 293 glyphs
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1. Completing JIS 1 level of Kanjis
2. Completing JIS 2 level of Kanjis
3. Completing JIS 3 level of Kanjis
4. Making 2,351 glyphs of Hanguls(10/2351)
5. Adding extended Latin glyphs up to 'Latin extended additional'
6. Completing basic Arabic blocks
7. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese'
8. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'BIG 5 Common Character Set'
9. Completing KS X 1001 symbols
10. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Table of General Standard Chinise Character'
11. Completing 'Russian cylliric' block
12. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Xim Sans' (Total of 17912 glyphs)
Ever seen the classic Minecraft font in languages like Russian, Greek, Polish, Vietnamese ... ?
It’s possible by downloading this font.
Here we have a filled-counter pseudoserif pseudostencil that is also a borderline IVO design at the same time! It also has a bit of a "double font" look going on if you look at the negative space.
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Design Rules:
1. Internal negative spaces of glyphs will be filled such that a 0.5-brick-wide void exists between the filled space and the glyphs themselves.
2. When a glyph's horizontal line intersects with the filled space created by Rule 1, both the filled space and the line will be broken.
3. Vertical lines will only connect by two tapering curves or by the implied connections created by filled negative space.
4. Filled negative spaces may only join with the outer perimeters of glyphs.
A "Connect bricks" font.
It's called linestrider because the outline strides across the inline on both sides. It also reminds me of the courses that are drawn for line-following robots.
The person I made this for requested lowercase. I'll add it as I can.
A design that combines decolike asymmetry with a double line concept. It also incorporates some experimental methods to unify the wider glyphs (mw@#™, etc.) with the others, by allowing the middle sections of these letters to have both the single and double lines. This results in a look that is at times architectural and at other times almost like loopy cursive.
A design that combines tropes from fantasy, sci-fi, and sports in a subtle and pixel-optimized way.
Structurally, this looks like a high-res version of Marengi Mk2. There are still plenty of differences between the two, but since they seem equally readable to me, I'm tagging this as a chat font.
I finally made a folded-/ribbon-style design. This one contains a number of experimental techniques. Most notably, the swept parts of glyphs are allowed to extend beyond the letterwidths and sometimes even the baselines. This enhances the sense of movement, creates some interesting linkages, and reduces the need for kerning.
All of these shapes can be constructed with paper or ribbon, although lots of clever folding tricks, doubling, and pinning down/securing with glue would be required.
Alternate tilde on "±".
The Unicode bitmap font from Minecraft, also known as GNU Unifont. The game has a font priority system called "providers" that looks for bitmap data for a specific character in the non-Latin European character set first, then in the accented Latin character set, then in the game's low-res default font, then finally here, in the high-res Unicode character set. You can override this priority system by going into Options... > Language..., then setting "Force Unicode Font" to ON.
The game stores this font in images containing 16 rows and 16 columns of characters. Each character is 16 pixels wide and 16 pixels tall, totalling 256 characters per image. Each image represents one Unicode codepage, and there are 256 pages, which covers characters U+0000 to U+FFFF. Control characters and most CJK characters are omitted here, because FontStruct doesn't officially support them.
The font is not monospace, however, so the effective widths of each character are stored in a separate file called glyph_sizes.bin. Information for each character is stored in one byte, and the upper and lower 4 bits of this byte represent the start column and end column with a number ranging from 0 to 15, where 0 is the leftmost column of the character's allotted 16x16 space, and 15 is the rightmost column, respectively.
Knowing all of this allowed me to automate most of the steps involved in creating this recreation. I did not use the FontStructor to make this, I instead used a program to directly interact with FontStruct's API. It is possible to add unsupported characters to a font with this method, but I chose to stay within the limits of what is officially supported.
First of all let me start by saying this is the longest font name i’ve ever seen and it doesn’t even mean anything. This is because I name my fonts random made-up words that I think look good written in the font. Also no, the uppercase letters are not meant to be alternates, I just liked the idea of a lowercase font, but wanted to be able to use uppercase to make things look less like they were written by someone texting the whole time. Yes I know I made the actual uppercases for the tall letters (sorry I don’t know what it’s actually called), but that’s because I couldn’t just make them taller to show that they were uppercase. This font is compatible with English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Russian, and maybe others I missed. Language compatibility requests are welcome.
This font's title means "masterpiece" in Spanish. The FontStruction can be used for closed-captioning, translating, videogame developing, cable footages, and much more! Please give credit to us when you download this font. Tell us what you think in the comment section below!
Good luck and have a nice day, everyone!