FontStructions from ParadigmTheGreat (Sorted by Sharing Date)

“Splatoon Debug Font” by ParadigmTheGreat

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:25:05 +0000

The debug font from Splatoon, present in System.pack

“FONT_1” by ParadigmTheGreat

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:50:45 +0000

Attempt at some font archaeology. This is a reconstruction of the FontStruction with an ID of 1. A lot of the data for these ancient fonts is corrupted and incomplete.

“Minecraft Unicode” by ParadigmTheGreat

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:52:40 +0000

The Unicode bitmap font from Minecraft, also known as GNU Unifont. The game has a font priority system called "providers" that looks for bitmap data for a specific character in the non-Latin European character set first, then in the accented Latin character set, then in the game's low-res default font, then finally here, in the high-res Unicode character set. You can override this priority system by going into Options... > Language..., then setting "Force Unicode Font" to ON.

The game stores this font in images containing 16 rows and 16 columns of characters. Each character is 16 pixels wide and 16 pixels tall, totalling 256 characters per image. Each image represents one Unicode codepage, and there are 256 pages, which covers characters U+0000 to U+FFFF. Control characters and most CJK characters are omitted here, because FontStruct doesn't officially support them.

The font is not monospace, however, so the effective widths of each character are stored in a separate file called glyph_sizes.bin. Information for each character is stored in one byte, and the upper and lower 4 bits of this byte represent the start column and end column with a number ranging from 0 to 15, where 0 is the leftmost column of the character's allotted 16x16 space, and 15 is the rightmost column, respectively.

Knowing all of this allowed me to automate most of the steps involved in creating this recreation. I did not use the FontStructor to make this, I instead used a program to directly interact with FontStruct's API. It is possible to add unsupported characters to a font with this method, but I chose to stay within the limits of what is officially supported.

“unfinished” by ParadigmTheGreat

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 05:37:29 +0000

“DOS-J 437” by ParadigmTheGreat

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 02:03:00 +0000

The thin sans-serif terminal font from old Japanese DOS machines.

“utopia24” by ParadigmTheGreat

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:41:20 +0000

Low-res recreation of an old Adobe classic.

“M.C. Kids (NES) Credits Font” by ParadigmTheGreat

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 23:30:23 +0000

Credits font from M.C. Kids for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Sprite sheet obtained from MatiasNTRM on The Spriters' Resource.

“FixedMedium 10x20” by ParadigmTheGreat

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 21:43:19 +0000