Original size: 15pt
*
A font which has a spurless, sans-serif, pixelated polygonal look which is somewhat reminescent of fonts used in VHS technology.
A lot of applied science went into this design. It's designed to remain legible on all media in all use conditions, provided that one uses the original size or a multiple thereof. Numerous technologies and mediums were employed to realize this objective.
"Diaspora" was tested and refined for use with/on/against:
• CRT, LCD & e-Ink screens
• image formats & compressed imagery (GIF, JPG)
• printers (inkjet, bubble jet, laserjet, & thermal)
• analog video & multi-generational copies (VHS, Super 8)
• digital video (AVI, MP4, MPEG, WEBM, WMV)
• 3D and voxel models (Blender, MagicaVoxel, POV-Ray)
• dynamic scaling hardware (game consoles and capture devices)
• imagery plugins & filters, including image degraders
• image scaling/interpolation hardware & software
• image recognition hardware & software
These all have traits which degrade, distort, compress, glitch, or otherwise alter imagery in various ways. This design aims to minimize the loss of legibility from these effects and to attain the best scores possible in various forms of imagery analysis. So far, this has proved extremely useful, as it can remain fully legible even when extreme JPG or video compression are applied to it thousands of times.
A piece of software I helped write, called the Marinan Imagery Deconstruction AI System (MIDAS), is being used on captured images of this font. The end objective is to realize the design which has the best all-around Marinan Interpretability Value (MIV) for all the tested platforms - the design which is considered by MIDAS to be the most legible in the most media under the broadest range of use conditions and quality levels.
MIDAS uses a set of considerations made with both humans and computers in mind, so a high MIV does not necessarily equal a better font - it just means one that the system thinks is easier to visually interpret. Note the use of the phrase "visually interpret" as opposed to "read". MIDAS tries to determine how well people and computers can tell what shapes are, not how much enjoyment they'll get from reading or how much strain they might undergo while doing it.
*
VERSION HISTORY:
1.0.0 - initial release.
1.0.1 - More Latin support added.
1.0.2 - First batch of tests run.
1.0.3 - gjy5&ßẞ were improved, some glyphs added.
1.0.4 - Second batch of tests run. Space width reduced.
1.0.5 - Experimentally converted to a rounded spurless design, then converted back to a plain spurless after testing. A few new ligatures were added.
1.0.6 - Cyrillic and Greek enter development. Many of these letters must be altered to be distinct from their Latin counterparts.
1.0.7 - Some spacing values changed to increase internal consistency. More difficult tests are being devised. However, since only I seem interested in this type of work, this project is going on hiatus for some time.
*
See also: AMFA, a font built with similar considerations in mind
Version 1.4
*
A variant of Kitchen Sink Rounded with filter sizes altered so that most letters are enclosed within golden rectangles. This is a squatter and friendlier take on the design - good for header text.
UC cloned to LC to make this easier to use...
This is a clone of Kitchen Sink RoundedAn extension of ideas present in "Gehenna".
This is a font containing every Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letter I could find.
I did this font of my Windows laptop, so some letters may look similar to the default WIndows font.
A fan request. This is Minecraft's in-game text font, truncated to fit into a smaller grid and then edited for consistency.
Feel free to use this for your fan games / mods / whatever! :D
*
Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
High-res version of Marengi.
This is made to be ultramodern and ultraregular, just as high-tech futuristic corporations are wont to make their fonts.
MIV: 7.94
Recommended: Use with kerning and antialiasing turned ON!
A slightly chimeric sci-fi design with no relation to Space Blam, Space Clam, Space Cram, Space Dam, Space Fam, Space Flam, Space Gram, Space Ham, Space Jam, Space Kazaam, Space Ma'am, Space Pram, Space Ram, Space Sam, Space Slam, Space Spam, Space Tram, or Space Yam.
In making this I attempted to achieve a harmony between angles and curves. You can see it especially well on "B", "3", "8", and "&".
Experimental cyberpunk robot mosaic thing.
It gives me a strong "system font" feeling and seems like something that might be included with the OS of some futuristic tech deck. If the Fairlight Excalibur from Shadowrun Returns had its own font, this could be it!
*
Original size: 21pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
Rather than serve an ornamental or decorative purpose, this one is made to be as clean as possible so that it works well for body text. It's highly legible at small size, so it could potentially even be a programmer's font!
"Goud" stands for "Garden of Unearthly Delights", the name of an album from the band Cathedral.
Pixel demake of Goud. This is easily the best Goud for body text, as it remains crisp at all sizes!
*
Original size: 9pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
A better version of BM MINI with much more characters. Compatible with English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, German, Portuguese, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Vietnamese, Russian, Belarusian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Macedonian.
A 7x7 outline design which is made to form solid-looking masses from the glyphs while still allowing the outer perimeters of words to take on some unique shapes.
Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
24-segment display. This one belongs to a small family called Calculatrix.
Like Calculatrix 12, this one is spaced so that every segment appears in its proper place, as if the text were being rendered on one giant display. (If using this in your own software, you will want to check the line spacing as it can vary depending on the software.)
I suppose this font could be used for weaving or embroidery work, as well... it has that look about it...
TIP: Try zooming out while already at Pixel size!
A stencil design in which diagonal cuts are used to imply angles and curves. It does not quite obey the rules of a segmented display, but it tries its best!
This is inspired by some text I put on the side of the Sheepslayer Mk.2, a flying dragon car piloted by Lyll "Hatch" Soretti in my game Seven Candles.
A dashed line design made with the new half-arc bricks. The emphasized spurs/stems and off-kilter geometry give it a quirky, almost handwritten quality. Its striped appearance makes me think of candy as well as the Cheshire Cat, thus the name. :D
I doubt the upper case would look as cute as the lower. So I've cloned all LC to UC to make this easier to use...
Trying this style out. The name comes from a monster in the game NetHack.
*
See also:Gridlarva
The last entry in the Pseudostencil series... this is built at 2x2!
It seems like the sort of font I'd see carved in relief on the sign of an old pub.
Hello everyone! This is a font based off of the Casio fx-ES Series Calculator text. I also included Hiragana and Katakana, though they're difficult. Cyrillic is slightly harder, but easy. Alternates are in Private Use Area!
Font with Monospaced Letters
This font is free for personal uses.
This font is also free for commercial uses.
Each character is 1 unit away.
Font Comes in Languages: Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Zulu. It Supports the Following Blocks: Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Basic Latin, Currency Symbols, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Greek and Coptic, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin-1 Supplement, Letterlike Symbols, Mathematical Operators, and Spacing Modifier Letters.
KrLonjt is a pixel-optimized, sans-serif typeface which is free for personal and commercial uses. It has monospace letters and it supports ligatures, the Florin currency symbol, lozenge, and more.
A design with long ascenders and descenders, even on letters that don't normally have them. Good for "old book" text in video games.
This is used in ESOSVM for most text which occurs while the player is in the dimension "Ladede", thus the name. Ladede has a canon, cosmology, and eventing which are seeded by in-jokes relating to roguelike games, especially Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. A font like this, in that context, is meant to be elegant but also mocking. This makes it seem subtly adversarial, as roguelike game elements are wont to do, and helps let the players know that they are in a bad, screwed-up place that they are unlikely to understand.
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.
*
Original size: 13pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
Verbossus in sans-serif!
This is a clone of VerbossusAkam
another rounded font
this font supports :
Čeština-Czech
Dansk-Danish
English
Suomalainen - Finnish
Français-French
Deutsch-German
Bahasa Indonesia-Indonesian
Italiano-Italian
Melayu-Malay
Polski-Polish
Tagalog (Latin)
Svenska - Swedish
Español - Spanish
This is a cloneFinally, a pixel font that supports English,Turkish, Portuguese, Italian,French, and Spanish glyphs, and even some Hungarian ones! Inspired by modern sans-serif typefaces (mainly Helvetica), with highly readable and consistent lettering.
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans Condensed &Pompy Mini.
Let me know if there are any other glyphs you'd like to have with it, and I'll update it! Planning on implementing Cyrillic next.
Condensed version of Pompy Sans, great for when you need it to read nice and clearly! Like its parent, also supports a lot of glyphs that are hard to come by :))
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans and Pompy Mini.
This is a clone of Pompy SansThe smallest you can get without compromising readability or consistency!
It is packed though, so use it when you really gotta cram a lot of info in a few pixels.
Pairs up nicely with Pompy Sans and Pompy Sans Condensed.
Also, pro tip: play around with kerning (the space between letters) if you're not too obsessed with the "exactly 1 px space". Sure it's cheating, but if it looks good, go for it!
This is a clone of Pompy Sans CondensedFrom the Final Fantasy Advance and DS games. Specifically the final version, from FFIV DS. I tried to make it compatible with all languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. Plus Japanese Hiragana and Katakana.
If you see problems, let me know.
CHANGES FROM IN-GAME ORIGINAL:
•Added additional letters and diacritics.
•Changed the circumflexed letters to use actual circumflexs instead of inverted breves, so I could add breved letters.
•Used half-pixels to center diacritics over letters.
•Made some diacriticized letters more consistent.