A collection of recreations of fonts from classic video/computer games, all built brick-by-brick on FontStruct.
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In-Game font from Dan Dare I on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
This is a clone of Dan Dare IIA recreation of the font used in Midway's 'Arch Rivals', an arcade game originally released in 1989. It's actually the font taken from Miway's own 'Rampage' (1986), but expanded upon with a complete set of lowercase letters and additional punctuation.
This is a clone of RampageRecreation of the main pixel font from Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap" (2004) on the Game Boy Advance.
This is the proportional variant, as used in the game's intro and dialog boxes.
A handful of characters - ™ trade mark sign (U+2122), ♪ eight note (U+266A), ❤ heavy black heart (U+2764), ▶ black right-pointing triangle (U+25B6) - had very subtle antialiasing. In this recreation, it has been removed. The tileset also includes two different sets of double quotation marks (which are not used in the game itself) - the "fatter" ones have been mapped to heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament (U+275D) and heavy double comma quotation mark ornament (U+275E).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters, with custom glyphs for characters with a dakuten and handakuten. The game itself also uses a series of complex kanji characters (particularly in the introduction). Some of those characters are also wider than the default 8 pixel tiles. These have not been included in this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Mono)Recreation of the pixel font from Namco's "Bakutotsu Kijūtei: Baraduke II" (1988).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after 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.
Buttons and console names for retro tracks are in the High Private Use Surrogates (starting from U+DB80). More "squished" characters (used for Bowser's Castle 2 in french and maybe other circuits because normal characters don't fit in the menu) are in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth blocks (to add later).
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 Sega's "Ninja Gaiden" (1992) for the Sega Master System.
Note the "interrobang" character (U+203D).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Namco's "Pistol Daimyo no Bōken" (1990).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after 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 Nintendo's "The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap" (2004) on the Game Boy Advance.
This is the monospaced variant, as found in the game's ROM and as used in the initial character name entry screens. In game, the font is then used proportionally - this will be provided as a separate font recreation.
A handful of characters - ™ trade mark sign (U+2122), ♪ eight note (U+266A), ❤ heavy black heart (U+2764), ▶ black right-pointing triangle (U+25B6) - had very subtle antialiasing. In this recreation, it has been removed. The tileset also includes two different sets of double quotation marks (which are not used in the game itself) - the "fatter" ones have been mapped to heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament (U+275D) and heavy double comma quotation mark ornament (U+275E).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters, with custom glyphs for characters with a dakuten and handakuten. The game itself also uses a series of complex kanji characters (particularly in the introduction). Some of those characters are also wider than the default 8 pixel tiles. These have not been included in this recreation.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the in-game font used for the Tokyo 64 console from "Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". Why is it 7:10 rather than 7:7?
Also, how come the Japanese version has more accurate looking text?
Recreation of the medium/high resolution character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
This is a clone of Atari STRecreation of the character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Columns" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive.
Compared to the arcade, the console version does not rely on antialiasing. This recreation includes the alternative "T" and "I", mapped to the lowercase characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned after 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 Comad/New Japan System's "Fantasia" (1994) (one of the many "sexy Qix" type games). This font was reused for "New Fantasia" (1995).
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.
It's the fancy cursive font from "resource2.dat" from Cube World. Turns out, its actually the 'Venice' font by Susan Kare & Bill Atkinson from the original classic Macintosh, so I've added all the remaining characters from the original font which the cube world version didn't have.
Cube World is Copyright 2010-2019 Picroma e.K.
Revisiting a font I made over 10 years ago as a request: A solid version of the large font used in numerous Atari video arcade games, 1984-1987. By removing the three-colored font-smoothing effect, the typeface definitely loses its elegance; some glyphs (especially the #) are reduced to mere "blobs" of pixels. Hopefully the requester finds some use for it. Best below 20 pt.
This is a clone of Atari SerifAn filled version of Atari Serif that has # modified, some glyphs added like . and ,, and single colored. *Looks perfect at 12pt and certain sizes above 12.* And before you ask, there's no t slash on the Et-like &, which makes it look wonky.
This is a clone of Atari Serif6x6 in-game rune font of the Amiga role-playing game Ambermoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambermoon
https://gitlab.com/ambermoon/research/-/wikis/font