Recreation of the runic pixel font from Origin Systems' "Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny" (1988).
Ultima's runic alphabet contains a character for each A-Z letter of the latin alphabet. In addition, it has compound characters for specific letter pairings which, unfortunately, cannot be set up in a TrueType font (you'd need OpenType for these custom ligatures, I assume). As these characters (with one exception) lack an appropriate unicode point, they have been added here as follows (to unicode characters that at least visually appear close enough): "ee" 'currency sign' (U+00A4), "th" 'capital thorn' (U+00DE), "st" 'bowtie' (U+22C8), "ng" 'tifinagh letter yag' (U+2D33), "ea" 'vai syllable ta' (U+A55A).
As in the game, "space" between words uses a middle dot, and the full stop/period uses a symbol resembling a staff of aesculapius.
Only the characters present in the game's runic character set have been included.
Recreation of the regular pixel font from HOT・B/Flying Edge's "Steel Empire" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used for intro animation, and on the end-of-level stats screen. The game also includes a custom compound character for "'s" (apostrophe followed by an "s") - this has not been recreated here as it lacks an appropriate unicode code point.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Goof Troop: Pirate Island Adventure" (1993) on the SNES.
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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Enix's "Dragon Warrior II" (1990) on the NES. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dragon Warrior (NES)Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", "j", "z", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of ToeJam & Earl (Variant 1) (Mono)Recreation of the pixel font from id Software's "Quake" (1996). Note that the original has a few small antialiased elements which have been flattened for this recreation. Only the characters present in the game's resource files have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Mitchell's "Charlie Ninja" (1995).
The tile set includes a full set of katakana, even though they're not used in the game itself. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles. 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 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 main pixel font from Kaneko/Taito's "Prebillian" (1986).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
In the game, the colours in the font are generally cycling. This recreation uses one specifically pleasing combination of colours during these constant transitions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of PrebillianRecreation of the pixel font from Capcom/Victor Musical Industries' "Tiger Road" (aka "Tora e no Michi", 1990) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Sunsoft's "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (1990) on the NES, used primarily in the shop sequences.
This font contains an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, and positioned in the line above the character they relate to. In this recreation, these characters are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the limited pixel font for the high score entry on Midway/Bally's "Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D" (1992) pinball, and later reused in other machines such as "Theatre of Magic" (1995). Only the latin characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the title screen pixel font from Seibu Kaihatsu/Hudson Soft's port of "Raiden" (1991) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
The ROM is missing a few characters, so this extended recreation includes custom letters for "J", "Q", "W", "X", "Y", and "Z". Apart from these, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of ToeJam & Earl (Variant 2) (Mono)