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Personal URL | https://www.splintered.co.uk |
Fontstructing since | 1st April, 2008 |
Fontstructions | 1294 shared, 0 staff picks |
Shared Glyphs | 117400 |
Downloads | 53937 downloads made of this designer’s work |
Comments Made | 1477 |
Recreation of the pixel font used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982). Note the block element characters, set to their equivalent unicode points (U+2596 through to U+259F). Only the characters present in the computer's character set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Universal's "Zero Hour" (1980). Very similar to "Cheeky Mouse" (1980), but with tweaked "M", "W", "X", "Z", "0" and copyright symbol. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Cheeky MouseRecreation of the pixel font from the japanese release of Nintendo's "Zelda no Densetsu: Yume o Miru Shima" (aka "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening", 1993) on the Game Boy.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that in the original, the "?" and "!" feature very subtle antialiasing. This has been "flattened" for this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's original "Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1986) on the Famicom Disk System.
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy (CRT)Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's cartridge re-release of "Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1986), renamed/numbered as "Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy" (1994), on the Famicom.
The re-release uses that same alphanumeric characters of the North America/Europe release of "The Legend of Zelda" (1987), but otherwise all characters remain the same. Note that the dakuten is used in the initial story screen as a double-quote character (which oddly is also the case in the North America/Europe version, even though these have a separate double-quote character).
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" (1987) on the NES.
This font includes a full set of katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Nihon Falcom's "Ys: The Vanished Omens" (aka "Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished", 1987) on the Sega Master System.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from the Japanese version of Nihon Falcom's "Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished: Omen" (aka "Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished", "Ys: The Vanished Omens", 1987) on the Sega Master System.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the original font also included a small error, where a pixel from や (U+3084, hiragana letter Ya) is mistakenly added to the right of も (U+3082, hiragana letter Mo). This mistake is included in this recreation as well.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Xyzolog" (1985) on the MSX. Note the special "L" (mapped to lowercase "L"), and the lowercase "y" and "z". Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Incomplete pixel font set, based on the shop sequence of the Bitmap Brothers' Amiga shooter "Xenon 2: Megablast" (1989). Designed to be used aliased at a size of 5px (or multiples thereof). Originally posted at http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/61/
Recreation of the pixel font from Headgames/Sega's "X-Men 2: Clone Wars" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive.
In the game, the characters use two separate shades of the same color to give a subtle antialiasing/slimming effect. In this recreation, this antialiasing has been removed, and the characters are all one solid color.
Also note that this is not a true monospace font due to the copyright symbol, which is double wide.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega/Western Technologies Inc.'s "X-Men" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive.
Note that the game uses two different exclamation marks - this recreation only includes the one that's consistent with the rest of the punctuation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Westone/Sega's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (aka "Wonder Boy V: Monster World III", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega/Westone's "Wonder Boy in Monster Land" (1988) on the Sega Master System. Alphanumeric characters are the same as "Space Harrier" (1985) - the classic "Sega font". 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)Recreation of the pixel font used in Sega's "Wonder Boy" (1987) on the Master System. Slightly expanded, but for the most part only the characters present in the game ROM have been included.
Updated 2 December 2018: referring back to the game ROM, corrected the "Q", "K", "J", "X", "/", comma, heart, "7" (swapping it for the one used in game, rather than on the title screen), and added the missing "!" and dash/minus. Also included the two lowercase "a" and "e" characters used for "escape" on the title screen.