Feeling inspired after reading Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omagari, I set out to make my own 8x8 pixel font. I worked with a similar approach to the one I used in the larger grid font offstruct rgb.
First started in Adobe Illustrator, each character consists of three iterations of the same 6x6 pixel letter: in RGB Red, Green and Blue. These were layered, offset by one pixel diagonally, filling the 8x8 box. To achieve additive blending, I applied the "Lighten" transparancy setting. Combinations of overlaying these three primary RGB colours result in the secondary RGB coloured pixels Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. In the additive mixing of coloured lights, the equal blending of all three primary colours results in White. All pixels were then entered manually into the fontstructor and black pixels were added for display purposes.
This is a supplement to my Tengwar font Elrond. The light blue glyphs are only for demonstration: showing the proper placement of diacritical marks.
This is a clone of ElrondA faithful recreation of the nostalgic 8-bit font with an IBM Code Page 437 character ROM-based twist.
While it has only 381 characters, I'll strive to work hard on this one.
Fast Facts:
The Famicom was released in Japan on 15 July 1983. It was released in the United States on 18 October 1985 as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Note the Super Mario Bros. and Tetris games use the other J instead of this one I custom made for this font.
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