Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Streets of Rage" (aka "Bare Knuckle", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Minor update 2 Dec 2018: referring back to the actual tile set in the game's ROM, added the "?" and apostrophe, and corrected ":" and ";"
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars" (1986). Alphanumeric characters are the same as "Space Harrier" (1985), with the exception of the "S". Punctuation and special characters are unique to this game, though. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Space Harrier (Original)Clone from Hopping Mappy. Font from Hopping Mappy, (C) 1983, 1986 Namco
This is a clone of Hopping MappyClone of The Three Stooges. Font from The Three Stooges, (C) 1984 Mylstar Electronics
This is a clone of The Three StoogesClone of Mystic Marathon. Font from Mystic Marathon, (C) 1984 Williams Electronics Inc.
This is a clone of Mystic MarathonRecreation of the pixel font from Codemasters' "Dizzy III - Fantasy World Dizzy" (1989) on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
The same font is used in all subsequent "Dizzy" adventure games - "Dizzy 3 and a Half - Into Magicland" (1991), "Dizzy IV - Magicland Dizzy" (1991), "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991), and "Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk" (1992).
Note that "Dizzy V - Spellbound Dizzy" (1991) uses the "66" style left quotation marks (U+201C) at the start of any speech, while in all other games the "Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark" (U+201F) is used.
"Dizzy II - Treasure Island Dizzy" (1988) already used an early version of this font, but with fewer special characters. One major difference is the single quote/apostrophe character - compared to all later games, which use a "9" style apostrophe, "Dizzy II" used a straight diagonal small one. This has been included in this recreation, mapped to "Right Single Quotation Mark" (U+2019).
Also note that the egg character - used to indicate lives in game - is mapped to "black circle" (U+25CF).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Updated 06/2023: added the apostrophe from "Dizzy II", added the "66" style left quotation mark, and confirmed that this same font is used for the rest of the series, and on all other 8-bit platforms.
Triad published by Livewire. One of the first games I ever played on the C64 back in 1985, loaded this up off tape - probably the first game I ever mastered and advanced through the levels. And the first place I ever heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor :)
Recreation of the pixel font from Naxat/Compile's "Seirei Senshi Spriggan" (1991) on the PC Engine.
The game includes two sets of numerals - regular and "fancy", with extra detail on the "0", "2", "4" and "5". As the fancy version is used in-game, it's the one that was included in this recreation.
Note the addition of the "black right-pointing double triangle" (U+23E9), "black circle" (U+25CF), and the stylised "A" - which doesn't seem to be used in-game, but is likely a remnant/carry-over from Compile's "Aleste" (1988) - mapped to "greek capital letter alpha" (U+0391).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Sin-Nihon Laser Soft/Telenet Japan/NEC's "Last Alert" (aka "Red Alert", 1989) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Taito's "Darius Force" (aka "Super Nova", 1993) on the SNES.
Note the cursor/square character, mapped to "black large square" (U+2B1B).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from SIMS' "Master of Darkness" (aka "Vampire: Master of Darkness", "In the Wake of Vampire", 1993) on the Sega Master System.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font used for the highscore table in Sega's "Ace Attacker" (1988). This rather whimsical font contrasts starkly with the primary font used in the game, which is the same as "Altered Beast" (1988).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Offstruct RGB is a pixel colour font made using Adobe Illustrator and Fontstruct's new layers feature. It is inspired by the additive colour model in which Red, Green, and Blue light are mixed together. More samples here: Behance
This is a clone of offstructRecreation of the pixel font from Raising Hell Software/Psygnosis' "Wiz 'n' Liz: The Frantic Wabbit Wescue" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.