Pixel cursive, mostly on a 5x5 grid. :^)

It was possible to build every letter in 5x5, but it honestly looks far better when letters with descenders are allowed to descend a bit.

This is a terminal font used in several of my own games. Think of it as my own replacement font for a DOS prompt. It is meant for all-uppercase, terminal use, so it does not have extended language support.

After making this, "C" was changed to be more distinctive.

Coquette Dynatype by bugmenot666 is one of my favorite fonts. It has an exotic look while being very readable and regular.

With Dynatype Z I tried to take the exotic aspects further without changing the core design too much. The lowercase got some alternates, too!

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!

Original size: 7.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A font made for sci-fi board game design use. The slanted terminals slightly remind me of the logo for the original Starcraft, thus the name.

I made a circuitry-esque look, then started embellishing it.

I'm not sure why but I now get a strong "medical" feeling from this one, as if this font were used for the display on some sort of futuristic surgeon robot.

A font I designed for the animation series, "The Boris Barkov Show". This is made to look blocky and industrial, but still fairly modern. It's mostly built on a 5x5 grid, and is perfectly useable as a pixel font, but is meant for high-res applications.

The show's titlecards only use this font in uppercase. But, I designed a lowercase for the sake of accessibility.

The show is about a stereotypically Russian, mustachioed, ushanka-wearing pug named Boris Barkov. Apart from speaking both English and Russian, he's able to play the video game "Escape From Tarkov", wield a sword and rifle, and carry and throw objects despite his lack of opposable thumbs. His nemesis is PugB (the Americanized "Rambo" pug) and he's rumored to have shady dealings with Sam Yippington, the Latvian Dachsund arms dealer...

Size: 5x5

Making a pixel font series.

Things that don't look good: (x, $, 1/4, 1/2)

Fairchild Channel F - PROPORTIONAL (font edition)
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.


2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

Fairchild Channel F
Video Entertainment System (VES - original name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

Collection of text characters, 1976-1981 Fairchild
5x5 / 4x5 / 3x5 US-ASCII valid fonts, 2018-04 dpla
Fairchild derived from the old 7-segment numerics.

Breakthroughs of this 2nd-gen video game console:
. first artificial intelligence (AI) in game,
. first programmable game cartridges (27),
. '8 colors' (in 102x58 out of 128x64 px),
. hold button menu, joystick/paddle controllers.

Today's young home players cannot understand this.


2018
0424
dpla.fr/fonts/channel-f-ves

Continuing on the theme of choosing a regular shape and making an alphabet out of it.

Looks best at smaller sizes (<24pt) and with antialiasing/ClearType turned on.

Can this be done better with filters? Probably, but I still have to learn those... :D

Made with 109 bricks and lots of nudging. The name is based on a friend's joke about lost marbles. :^)

An attempt to make low-resolution, circled letters without the use of filters. Fairly crude. Kinda reminds me of branding irons or stencils.

There are no © or ® glyphs. I wonder why that is?

TIP: This one looks best at smaller sizes (24pt or less) and with antialiasing/ClearType turned on!

Loosely based on the logotext for Korean reality show Society Game.

The 5x5 pixel font used for the Virtual Gremlin, an old emulator/game I wrote. The standard font for ingame text.

This font was also designed to work well with IRC clients and ASCII games (see sample).

Breaking the 5x5 grid was unfortunate but necessary in order to make legible characters in non-Latin languages.