With 12x12 pixels at size 6/8 font, the new brick filter options are on display in Zodiac Square. To ensure a square font, any accented glyphs from Mandrill (my monospaced, lanky, much-of-unicode font) that went above a capital A's peak were cut, but many lower-case accented glyphs stayed in. Since this is meant for a text-heavy game genre where legibility at small size is important, all of Latin Extended Additional was cut -- it was just too hard to read at small sizes, and I doubt it would be very useful in a roguelike or similar text-based game that needs square glyphs. This looks pretty good with anti-aliasing, but the preview may be funny because it uses the old 2x2 filter as well as the new horizontal stretch filter. It's called Zodiac Square because of the 12x12 pixels, 12 signs of the Zodiac.
This is a clone of MandrillThe same simple thing, now with more characters.
I thought it was a good idea to make this.
(I also thought it was a good idea to correct the spacing in the lowercase "j")
This is a clone of Nokia 6000 series MediumThis the font that the Australian crew used for the Wackadoo Watch. They used only the numbers to put it on the watch for the timer when it gets to nine seconds for the countdown to start. So I decided to remake this font and create all the numbers except for the number "0", and the rest of this font, I made some custom uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and some symbols that they didn't use for the Wackadoo Watch. So this a custom VTech font that I created and rip those characters from the watch.
Some time after having published Pixelbabania VI, then had a look at another font called Futura and saw its light version, I thought to myself, what if I made a lighter version of this font?
I then decided to hunker down and get to work on making this, feeling the flow of creation pour out.
I do hope you all enjoy downloading and using this as much as I enjoyed making and sharing with all.
Something I had been on and and off again working on for some time, making sure everything looked alright before I so much as thought about placing this creation onto here for all to witness.
Decided to impose a limit on myself when creating this font, such as width and height after being inspired by seeing translations of old video games. I had to get a bit creative with some of the characters and how I could make them look good without butchering them too badly.
I do hope you enjoy using this font as much as I enjoyed making it.
7/4/22 - Decided to add a VI to the name of the font, after the width I limited myself to using.
27/4/22 - Came across two glyphs that needed a bit of fixing, the registered sign, which was a width over, and Single Low-9 Quotation Mark, which needed to be moved a pixel down.
A vaguely Courierlike OSD (Onscreen Display) font which tries its best to be casual. The name is inspired by the old computer joke: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
No filters or faux-beziers, just stock bricks and a bit of stacking/nudging!
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More about the design:
It started as a doodle and an attempt to make a smooth, low-resolution, low-poly font, and then it became a Courierlike. I have other fonts that tried to do polygonal round shapes before this (such as Cartoon Riot) but this design is my first real success in this area.
Initially, I made the angled glyphs before the round ones. I didn't want to change the angled ones, so glyphs like C, O, and Q became a bit wider than they are tall. I'm quite fond of this, because in most designs these glyphs tend to have a tall and narrow character. I think the mildly squat look of this font makes it cuter and gives it more personality.
A lot of glyphs were altered in specific ways to look more like metal type, especially anything with diacritics which touch the letters themselves. Other glyphs were altered specifically to be interpretable at small size. I also use angled contours and actual round bricks alongside each other within the same glyphs, another technique which is geared toward style and interpretability at small size.
This font came with many new challenges and an array of new techniques had to be designed. Loops were an insurmountable challenge because of the low resolution and heavy line weight, so I drew rounded areas to suggest them. You can see it on letters like Greek γ, ζ, and ξ.
I use multiple text editors, and made this font to be an alternate font for Windows Notepad.
This was designed to be similar to Marengi Mk2, the font used in my FS Tutorials. Apart from using a smaller grid size, Eglantine achieves a closer line spacing through the use of short ascenders/descenders and the removal of the dots from i and j. It is also more condensed and optimized for speedreading, resulting in a font that is pleasant to read despite being quite small.
This design does have some wasted matrix, but this is necessary to achieve the desired effect. The global matrix is still only 7px tall, so this can still be used on most small canvasses.
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Original Size: 4.5pt
(new polygon sans font im working on)...
Might support more Latin, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Armenian and MISC Symbols later...
Update 0.7: Release with basic letters, symbols and numbers in ASCII
Update 0.8: Added more Latin
Update 1.0.3: Big update
Update 1.1.0: Te Reo Maori Hiragana And Katakana
Update 1.1.2: Shidinn Language (Uppercase and lowercase, midcase later)
Update 1.1.3: Arabic (TTF font files take up 65535 glyphs)
fixed version of some other guy's recreation
This is a clone of Fancade Logo Font