Single Case Version

Font recreated from the Game Boy game Super Mario Land.

NOTE: Click 'TrueType Font' when downloading!

Double Case Version

Font recreated from the Game Boy game Super Mario Land.

NOTE: Click 'TrueType Font' when downloading!

A combined recreation of the pixel fonts from the German, French, Italian, and Spanish versions of Nintendo/Game Freak/Creatures' "Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow" (1998) on the Game Boy.

Beyond the extra accented/special characters and the inverted exclamation and question marks, the most notable difference to the English version is a modified lowercase "m", a different "é", and the inclusion of "+" and "&". 

Note that the "Pokédollar" character has been mapped to the regular "$" sign. The arrows are mapped to "Black Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B6), "White Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B7), and "Black Down-Pointing Triangle" (U+25BC).

The tile set also includes custom characters that combine letters with apostrophes (e.g. for dialog that includes something like "I'm ...", there is an actual glyph with "'m"). These have not been included in this recreation.

The font has been slightly expanded to include some of the missing accented uppercase/lowercase characters. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from the English version of Nintendo/Game Freak/Creatures' "Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow" (1998) on the Game Boy.

Note that the "Pokédollar" character has been mapped to the regular "$" sign. The arrows are mapped to "Black Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B6), "White Right-Pointing Triangle" (U+25B7), and "Black Down-Pointing Triangle" (U+25BC).

The tile set also includes custom characters that combine letters with apostrophes (e.g. for dialog that includes something like "I'm ...", there is an actual glyph with "'m"). These have not been included in this recreation.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Classic NES Series: Castlevania" (2004) reissue on the Game Boy Advance.

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

 Pixelate 7 is a pixel sans-serif font created by Plus Channel.

An expanded and slightly modified version of a "classic" Nintendo Game Boy font. Based initially on the font from "Super Mario Land", but with a custom lowercase and a few additional and tweaked punctuation marks and special characters.

This font is a recreation of the font used in Pokémon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow Edition.

Feel free to write your opinion.

This font is for people who love video games!

This font is based on the game Wizards & Warriors: Chapter X - The Fortress of Fear for the Game Boy.

Recreation of the main pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap" (2004) on the Game Boy Advance.

This is the proportional variant, as used in the game's intro and dialog boxes.

A handful of characters - ™ trade mark sign (U+2122), ♪ eight note (U+266A), ❤ heavy black heart (U+2764), ▶ black right-pointing triangle (U+25B6) - had very subtle antialiasing. In this recreation, it has been removed. The tileset also includes two different sets of double quotation marks (which are not used in the game itself) - the "fatter" ones have been mapped to heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament (U+275D) and heavy double comma quotation mark ornament (U+275E).

This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters, with custom glyphs for characters with a dakuten and handakuten. The game itself also uses a series of complex kanji characters (particularly in the introduction). Some of those characters are also wider than the default 8 pixel tiles. These have not been included in this recreation.

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

Recreation of the main pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap" (2004) on the Game Boy Advance.

This is the monospaced variant, as found in the game's ROM and as used in the initial character name entry screens. In game, the font is then used proportionally - this will be provided as a separate font recreation.

A handful of characters - ™ trade mark sign (U+2122), ♪ eight note (U+266A), ❤ heavy black heart (U+2764), ▶ black right-pointing triangle (U+25B6) - had very subtle antialiasing. In this recreation, it has been removed. The tileset also includes two different sets of double quotation marks (which are not used in the game itself) - the "fatter" ones have been mapped to heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament (U+275D) and heavy double comma quotation mark ornament (U+275E).

This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters, with custom glyphs for characters with a dakuten and handakuten. The game itself also uses a series of complex kanji characters (particularly in the introduction). Some of those characters are also wider than the default 8 pixel tiles. These have not been included in this recreation.

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

This tileset was developed specifically for use with GBStudio, where graphics are stored in the system as 8x8 tiles. By using these tiles, one can incorporate a greater variety of tiles into a map without running into the 192-tile limit which Game Boy hardware has.

Well, before making this I already found ways to break that limit (and to use larger tiles), and the resulting games compile fine and even work on real hardware. I made this anyway for those who wish to never exceed 192 tiles, thus keeping their games small in filesize and reducing the likelihood of compiling problems.

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

A simple 16x16 terrain tileset. This is designed to work in color AND in monochrome.

In making this, I condensed all known biomes (terrestrial, aquatic, air, space, manmade, transitional) into 26 tiles. This allows a given tile to define multiple different types of areas/terrain, and it allows you to come up with your own meanings for these tiles, rather than having to memorize a legend. Some of the tiles are obvious and some are not; this is by design.

A-Z, a-z = terrain

0-9, 0-9+SHIFT = map borders/frame

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Original size: 12pt

Map Template:

.0123456789
!,,,,,,,,,,
@,,,,,,,,,,
#,,,,,,,,,,
$,,,,,,,,,,
%,,,,,,,,,,
^,,,,,,,,,,
&,,,,,,,,,,
*,,,,,,,,,,
(,,,,,,,,,,
),,,,,,,,,,
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See also:Donjon 16, Gremlin Skins

Recreation of an unused (?) pixel font found in the ROM for Konami's "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance" (2002) and "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow" (2003) on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, likely positioned after the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single (16px wide) glyph.

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

Recreation of the pixel font from the japanese release of Nintendo's "Zelda no Densetsu: Yume o Miru Shima" (aka "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening", 1993) on the Game Boy.

This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.

Note that in the original, the "?" and "!" feature very subtle antialiasing. This has been "flattened" for this recreation.

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

Recreation of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "Mario Tennis" (2000) on the Game Boy Color. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the primary pixel font from Nintendo's "Metroid II: Return of Samus" (1991) on the Nintendo Game Boy. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the primary pixel font from Konami's "Kid Dracula" (aka "Akumajō Supesharu: Boku Dorakyura-kun", 1993) on the Nintendo Game Boy. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Another free 5x5 pixel font for game developers. This one has a vaguely authoritarian quality thanks to the hard 90° angles.

Looks like a Game Boy font to me!

The main text font used for the laptop variant of the Mega Duck game console, a device that usually came in a form very reminescent of a Game Boy. I discovered this device and font through Ashens' YouTube video on the Mega Duck.

I like the font's vaguely Art Deco stylings, so I'm preserving it here.

Note that since I don't own a Mega Duck myself, I am unable to see every glyph. I had to come up with a few myself. They're consistent to the style but may not reflect the look of the actual hardware. The system does seem to have excellent language support so I hope a Mega Duck owner sees this...

Also inconsistent to the actual font is the spacing. The original looks like Monospaced 8px, but the width of "0" makes this impractical.

Finally, bear in mind that each "pixel" on the Mega Duck had lines of separation between itself and its neighbors. I've changed the brick size to 0.8 in an attempt to simulate this. It takes an immense size to accurately reproduce the grid, so I consider this design to be in the High Resolution Pixel category.

Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" (1993) on the Game Boy.

This recreation includes the special/accented characters from the french and german releases of the game. In game, the characters with a diaeresis use an additional tile above them - in this recreation, the characters have been combined properly (and as a result, the height of the font overall is greater than 8px).

As an aside, this font was also used for the fan translation of "For frog the bell tolls" (aka "カエルの為に鐘は鳴る" / "Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru", 1992/2011).

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

Updated 9 July 2022 to include additional accented uppercase characters, and the star icon.

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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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...

A font which appears in "Defender/Joust" (1995) on Game Boy. This font is incomplete within the ROM, so many letters and symbols were added for accessibility.

This font is used for Joust, although the numbers which actually appear ingame have their own look which is very different to these.

One of the many fonts used in "Hammerin' Harry: Ghost Building Company" by Irem for the Game Boy. This one can be seen on the title screen.

None of the fonts used in the game seem to have been completed. Analysis with VBA's Tile Viewer reveals only the glyphs needed to spell out what little text exists. In particular this font has only the glyphs "BCDEILMNORSTY139©". Thus, I took it upon myself to make the font more complete.

I did not add lowercase, since it's impossible to tell what style it would have been drawn in. EVERY font in the game is in uppercase... though some of the others do have small caps for "lowercase".

Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Gargoyle's Quest: Ghosts 'n Goblins" (1990) on the Nintendo Game Boy. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Batman - The Animated Series" (1993) on the Nintendo Game Boy. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

The font used in sfxr, a Windows program for generating 8-bit sound effects.

The font from the infamous Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal bootleg.

Includes some invented characters for convenience.