SUPER MA(RE-)O BROS.

A bitmap typeface family that recaps the classic fonts that were used for 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System game "Super Mario Bros."

-- It's a large piece that covers a bit of everything. And two seporate typefaces will be published the following days to accompany this one seemlessly.

both more less finished as well, but changes were made in this one that requires the other two to be fixed again in order to seemlessly work together before getting published, So stay tuned!

About this fist part:

It combines not just the two (title screen and ingame regular text)fonts used for this game, but also includes dingbats related to the game, and combines it all into one single typeface!

The sample will only display correctly at exact pixel size or double the value of this due to dither gradients that otherwise not show as a solid surfaces.

Basic and Extended Latin - letters seen at title screen

Superscripts and Subscripts -  regular text font (only partial alphabet, as according to the unicode standard for this block)

 Miscellaneous Symbols - miscellaneous dingbats related to the game such as emoji's and blocks to make seemless ornamental features like seen ingame

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms - regular text font but with full suport for both uppercase & lowercase, as well as numerals and basic punctuation.

Enjoy!

Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs' "Double Dragon II: The Revenge" (1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Compile/Tonkin House/ASCII Corporation's "Gun-Nac" (1990) on the NES. Note the diamond character, used for menu/shop item selection, mapped to U+25C6. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

8x8 pixel art generator. It can be used to draw at any size once you understand how it works. Feel free to write your own scripts/code to automatically draw with this!

Glyphs are mapped to pixels as follows:

456789,.
wxyz0123
opqrstuv
ghijklmn
YZabcdef
QRSTUVWX
IJKLMNOP
ABCDEFGH

ABCDEFGH will make a horizontal line at the bottom edge, HPXfnv3. would make a vertical line on the right edge, and so on.

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- INSTRUCTIONS -

Type to draw! See the sample for an example of how I do it.

1 space = 1px of spacing. Use 8 spaces to start a new block and 16 spaces to start a second block which is 8px away from the first. This fine space exists to allow any sort of pixel art to be drawn within an infinitely large "canvas".

- COMING SOON -

A guide to preparing any text for PixelGen 8x8 (I'm figuring this out now!)

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If you draw something with this font, feel free to show it off in a comment. This is an unusual way to draw, but it has many unforeseen potential uses!

One form of beauty in this type of art is that your code IS the art. And, the code and art are yours to recreate and modify endlessly as you desire, all without ever having to draw, save/load files, or even touch an image editor.

Have fun!

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- PREDRAWN ART -

(To see them, copy them, scroll up and use View -> "User Input" -> Ctrl+V)

1. 8x8 Black Square: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.

2. 16x16 Black Square: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.          ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.          ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789,.

3. 8x8 Circle: CDEFJOQXYfgnovx26789

4. 8x8 Square Border: ABCDEFGHIPQXYfgnovw3456789,.

5. 8x8 Chessboard: ACEGJLNPQSUWZbdfgikmprtvwy02579.

6. 8x8 Sword: ABEIJKLMRSTZacghjlsu13,.

7. 8x8 Smiley Face: CDEFJOQSTUXYdfgiknoqsvx26789

8. 8x8 Rosary: DLSTUbehiklnovw356789,

9. 8x8 Cartoon Bomb: BCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnpqrstuz089,

10. 8x8 Microscope: ABCDEFGHLMRSTUVWYZaghkostwz015678

11. 8x8 Bomberman: BCFGKNQSTUVXZabcdegilnoqtvw356789,

12. 8x8 Slime: BCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRWXYZabcdefghjkmnprsuyz0178

13. 8x8 Double Stars: EGMNOTUVWXdhjpqrwxyz06

14. 8x8 Brick Wall: ABCDEFGHIMQRSTUVWXaeghijklmnoswxyz01236,

15. 8x8 Floppy Disk: BCDEFGIKLMNPQSTUVXYfgijknoqsvwy0256789

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Recreation of the pixel font used for the end credits in Konami's "Castlevania" (1986) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

8x8 grid (6x6 capital letters) font. Full version: https://www.dafont.com/staxblox.font

A pixel rendition of Bolton Sans by designer Paul Lloyd. For a game concept of mine.

This is a redone version, as the original had issues that I couldn't seem to fix. But hey, this time it has more characters!

If you want to use this commercially, I guess I'd suggest getting permission from both of us?

Font based off of the text of Dragon Warrior IV for the NES.

The font used in Super Mario 64 when speaking to people or reading signs. These characters are mostly derived from the game and used to recreate the font. Glyphs such as the asterisk and curly bracket are made with modified or existing characters used in-game (star instead of asterisk, curly bracket made from parenthesis, etc.)

Recreation of the main pixel font from Rare/Tradewest's "R.C. Pro-Am II" (1992) on the NES. Note that the "$" sign originally spans two characters, incorporating a 4 pixel spacing on either side - for this recreation, the character was normalized to a regular single character width. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Rare/Nintendo's "Cobra Triangle" (1988) on the NES. Fairly standard, but with some interesting details in the "Q", "S", "Y", "5" and "9". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the bold variant pixel font from Arc System Works/Capcom's "Code Name: Viper" (aka "Ningen Heiki Dead Fox", 1990) on the NES. Includes the punctuation/special characters from the regular (non-bold) dialog version. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the dialog pixel font from Arc System Works/Capcom's "Code Name: Viper" (aka "Ningen Heiki Dead Fox", 1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Sammy's "Ninja Crusaders" (aka "Ninja Crusaders Ryuga", 1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from LJN's "Wolverine" (1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from LJN's much reviled "The Uncanny X-Men" (1989) on the NES. Note the alternative "A" and "V" characters, mapped to upper- and lowercase. This font also includes basic box-drawin elements.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the alternate font used in the (often hated) "Castlevania II - Simon's Quest" (1987) by Konami on the NES. This font is used for the dialog boxes and the inventory "multi-screen". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Realtime Associates/Bandai's "Dick Tracy" (1990) on the NES. Note the "half-star" character (used for the in-game health bar) has been mapped to U+2606 "white star". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

For reasons...

Includes a few minor invented characters to fill it out a bit.

Expanded version of the pixel font on the start screen of Konami's "Tiny Toon Adventures" (1991) on the NES. The original only contains a very limited set of characters (incomplete uppercase and only a few lowercase letters). All additionally created characters attempt to recreate the same whimsical feel of the characters present in the game's tile set.

Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs' "Double Dragon" (1987) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Tiny Toon Adventures" (1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the secondary pixel font from Capcom's "Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness" (1992) on the NES. This font is used primarily for the end credit sequence. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the main pixel font from Capcom's "Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness" (1992) on the NES. This font is used on the start/password screen and for all dialog boxes in the RPG section of the game. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Imagineering/Acclaim's "The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants" (1991) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Atlus/Hudson Soft's "Xexyz" (1988) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recration of the pixel font from Advance Communication Company's infamous "Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1988) on the NES. As the set of characters is incomplete in the game's tile set, this recreation was expanded to include custom "Q", "X", "Z" and additional punctuation. Note the lowercase "r", used for the "Dr." on the game's title screen.

The only "Kool" thing that's changed around here are 0-9, so they can look just like the numbers from Kid Kool on the NES, created by Vic Tokai.

Remember Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels? Yeah... me too. Dear god, Nintendo sure knows how to make things a lot painful back then. Here's something to remember the good-old frustrating days! A font based on The Lost Levels!