A collection of recreations of fonts from classic video/computer games, all built brick-by-brick on FontStruct.
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Color recreation of the pixel font used in Capcom's "Hyper Street Fighter 2 - The Anniversary Edition" (2004) - though it actually made its first appearance in "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Hyper Street Fighter 2 Anniversary EditionRecreation of the large pixel font from Sega's "Ristar" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is an expansion of the GUI/Menu font used in the 16-bit Earthbound games (Earthbound; Mother 3). This is usually referred to as the Apple Kid font, according to EarthBound Central.
The expansion is based off of Noto Sans by Google, as the font contains a majority of the Unicode glyphs, some of which are shown as □ in the FontStructor and many other fonts; that means that there are glyphs hiding in those □'s!
4/30/2024: EMOJI IS NOW IN BETA! I am now a FontStruct Patron, so I can add color to my font. While the main font is monochrome, I will be adding some EarthBound-themed emojis (limited to 8 colors)! Stay tuned!
1:1 pixel size is 11 or 12 size font.
The majority of all Unicode glyphs will be added soon.
Currently a work in progress. Expect some changes here and there occasionally.
Recreation of the pixel font from Namco's "Splatterhouse 2" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Splatterhouse 2Recreation of the small pixel font from Sega's "Ristar" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the alternate large pixel font from Nintendo's "Super Metroid" (1994) on the SNES.
This font is used for the initial "The last metroid is in captivity. the galaxy is at peace..." message at the start of the intro, and for the end screens and credits.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Metroid (Large Alt) (SNES)Recreation of the large pixel font from Konami's "Castlevania: Dracula X" (aka "Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss", "Akumajō Dracula XX", 1995) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES)Recreation of the alternate small pixel font from Nintendo's "Super Metroid" (1994) on the SNES.
The numbers are used in the game itself (for the energy, rocket, and bomb counters). The letters are used for the end credits.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Note that the "Q" and "Z" didn't feature in the credits, so they're my custom additions.
Apart from these, only the characters used in the game have been included.
This is a clone of Super Metroid (Small Alt) (SNES)Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts" (1991) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see the recreation of the "Ghouls 'n Ghosts" arcade font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Arcade Zone's "Legend" (1994) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Legend (SNES)Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems" (1996) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Final Fight" (1989).
This font is used in the intro cinematic. In the original, the double quotes are awkwardly split over two tiles. This recreation combines them into a single character. The recreation also corrects the missing antialiasing in the "3". However, it retains the original minus/dash (as seen in the character bio sheets), which is far too high.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. As the font relies on antialiasing, I did not create a separate monochromatic version of the font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a cloneRecreation of the variant of the proportional pixel font from Square/Nintendo's "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" (1996) on the SNES.
Compared to the more common version of the proportional font, this variant - used primarily in the inventory tutorial at the start of the game - omits/crops the 1px outline on the left-hand side of many of the characters.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Mario RPG (Proportional) (Colour)Recreation of the coloured pixel font from Sculptured Software/LucasArts' "Super Star Wars" (1992) on the SNES.
The font was reused in "Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1993) and "Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" (1994).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see Super Star Wars (SNES).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Star Wars (SNES)Recreation of the small pixel font from Nintendo's "Super Metroid" (1994) on the SNES.
This font is used primarily for the intro/story screens. Note the strange "J" that descends below the baseline.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Metroid (Intro) (SNES)Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Leland Interactive Media's "Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls" (1994) on the SNES.
The same font is used on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the Atari Jaguar, but the SNES version is the most complete with punctuation characters.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (SNES)Recreation of the pixel font from Ancient's "Beyond Oasis" (aka "The Story of Thor", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Beyond Oasis (Sega Mega Drive)Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Pop'n TwinBee" (1993) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The same font (with a few extra characters like the "%", "×" and "/", which have been added here as well), was used in the follow-up "Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures" (1994).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Pop'n TwinBee (SNES)Recreation of the monospaced version of the pixel font from Square/Nintendo's "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" (1996) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Mario RPG (Mono)Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Golden Axe II" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
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.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
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.
This is a clone of Goof TroopRecreation of the large pixel font from Irem's "Lightning Swords" (1991).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Lightning Swords (Large)Recreation of the large proportional antialiased pixel font from Westone/Hudson Soft's "Riot Zone" (aka "Crest of Wolf", 1992) on the PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Contra III: The Alien Wars" (1992) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Contra III: The Alien WarsRecreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Columns II: The Voyage Through Time" (1990).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Columns IIRecreation of the small proportional pixel font from Square/Nintendo's "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" (1996) on the SNES.
This is used in the inventory menu for item descriptions.
Note that the font includes explicitly transparent "holes" for the grey-ish background of the inventory screen to show through. In the game, these holes are still counted as part of the characters for the outline - the dark blue outline goes around these transparent areas.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Super Mario RPG (Small)Recreation of the pixel font from Taito's "Double Axle" (1991).
As this is my 1000th font (with most of them computer/game recreations, collated for The Video Game Font Preservation Society), it's worth noting why I chose this.
The arcade game itself is rather obscure, and not very good. However, the characters are, for the most part, very "classic arcade font" - though this font does have a few notable little quirks that make it unique (the weirdly slanted "0", the "8" with its offset counters, the mix of serif and sans serif). But most of all, what really struck me about the font is the colour treatment in game - a beautiful "desert chrome" rendition that just screams late 80s/early 90s.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support.
One minor tweak I made was to the "T", which had a very odd inbalance. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main coloured variant of the small pixel font from Factor 5/Neon Studio's "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This variant is used for the intro cinematic and end credits. Otherwise, the game uses the classic "Turrican/Turrican II" (1990) font.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
As with the monochrome version, this font has been slightly expanded to include special characters present in "Turrican 3" (1993) on the Commodore Amiga, and to complete the characters with umlauts (in two separate variations). The punctuation characters have been harmonised between the two versions as well.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Turrican 3 (Intro/Highscore Shading) (Colour)Recreation of the menu font from Konami's "Castlevania: Rondo of Blood" (aka "Akumajō Dracula X: Chi no Rondo", 1993) on the PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-CD.
Note the skull character is mapped to "black smiling face" (U+263B).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine)Recreation of the main pixel font from Technosoft's "Thunder Force III" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Thunder Force III (Sega Mega Drive)Recreation of the pixel font from Allumer/Taito's "Rezon" (1991).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Rezon