Recreation of the pixel font from VEB Polytechnik's "Poly-Play" (1985), an old arcade machine from the former GDR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play
Note the strangely cut off "?", "j", "g" (indistinguishable from "q") and round brackets.
This recreation uses "Upper half block" (U+2580) for what would be a (non-standard) "Upper one quarter block"), the "Lower one eighth block" (U+2581) to "Full block" (U+2588) sequence of block elements, "Light shade" (U+2591) for the diagonal pattern, "Medium shade" (U+2592), and "Dark shade" (U+2593) for the vertical pattern.
Individual games use some custom symbols which don't map easily to unicode and have not been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Cave's "Espgaluda" (2003), reused in "Espgaluda II" (2005) and "Deathsmiles" (2007). Note that the spacing for the "}" was amended for greater consistency. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
(Work in Progress)
This is a larger variation of my smaller 8-bit Nostalgia series, and assumes 16pt rendering. It's inspired in large part by the computers from my past: the Commodore 64, Atari, and IBM PC. In many ways, this font is closer to the font used for VGA text -- this font is on an 8x16 grid, while the VGA used a 9x16 grid. However, the VGA font has more letters with serifs, while this font avoids that whenever possible (aside from the typical I/i, L/l, J/j). Only a few other glyphs get serifs when they wouldn't otherwise need it to appear reasonably well-kerned.
This font uses an 8x16 pixel grid. The top three rows are reserved for ascenders and diacritics. The bottom four rows are reserved for descenders. This leaves nine rows for the capital forms, and seven rows for the lowercase forms.
Notable glyphs:
- The "A" and "V" is angled a bit more than usual in a font of this type.
- The "B" has a narrower top half in order to offset the fact that the top and bottom are equal height.
- "J" more closely resembles its lowercase form.
- "g" is a double-story form.
- "3", "4", "5", "6", "9" numerals are fairly unique forms