Inspired by commodore64 and others.

Part of a project.

Agent Dagger is a font inspired by the 1983 Atari arcade game 

"Cloak and Dagger" / "Agent X" featuring a full range of retro hacker styled characters with various glyphs and symbols

created by:                                                                                                Abstract Lion (Christian "Kiko" Lopez)

2019 (C)

A vaguely Courierlike OSD (Onscreen Display) font which tries its best to be casual. The name is inspired by the old computer joke: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"

No filters or faux-beziers, just stock bricks and a bit of stacking/nudging!

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More about the design:

It started as a doodle and an attempt to make a smooth, low-resolution, low-poly font, and then it became a Courierlike. I have other fonts that tried to do polygonal round shapes before this (such as Cartoon Riot) but this design is my first real success in this area.

Initially, I made the angled glyphs before the round ones. I didn't want to change the angled ones, so glyphs like C, O, and Q became a bit wider than they are tall. I'm quite fond of this, because in most designs these glyphs tend to have a tall and narrow character. I think the mildly squat look of this font makes it cuter and gives it more personality.

A lot of glyphs were altered in specific ways to look more like metal type, especially anything with diacritics which touch the letters themselves. Other glyphs were altered specifically to be interpretable at small size. I also use angled contours and actual round bricks alongside each other within the same glyphs, another technique which is geared toward style and interpretability at small size.

This font came with many new challenges and an array of new techniques had to be designed. Loops were an insurmountable challenge because of the low resolution and heavy line weight, so I drew rounded areas to suggest them. You can see it on letters like Greek γ, ζ, and ξ.

A minimized, more stylized Madcat! :D

Version History:

1.3: Added more symbols.

1.2: Added Dutch and German.

1.1: Q* were corrected.

1.0: Initial release.

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Font used for rAIn, shipboard AI of the RGS-1 Rainbow Loop. This will also likely be used in FLAK materials, as well.

Font from the ingame marquee display of Barcade Brawl, a 2015 game by yours truly. This was made to look similar to the system fonts from old arcade boards, PC microsystems, etc. You've probably seen the fonts I'm talking about; they're everywhere and many people refer to them singularly as "the arcade font" or "the NES font".

This is 7x7 with no wasted matrix, but it looks better without monospacing since not every glyph is the same width. It also makes a decent terminal & chat font, at least for those who don't care about the case of the messages they read and write.

Feel free to use this in your games, etc.!

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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

A compressed, squareish microfont. 4x4, monospaced, no wasted matrix.

I like how this one uses all the space it occupies. Glyphs like ijl1 fill out the words they're in rather than creating voids. Also, i looks kind of like a lit candlestick, and I like that.

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Original size: 3pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

Version 1.1: KRX were modified to be more readable at small size, MQW14'"@ were edited for style, Basic Latin band completed, More Latin band underway.

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A font made by request for an author of custom Warhammer 40K modules.

A squareish and vaguely futuristic pixel design! It is not monospaced but still has a very "terminal" look about it.

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Original size: 5px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A variant of Micro Machina which is made to be more open, more consistent, and simpler in geometry than the original.

Having become accustomed to reading the original Micro Machina, I'm not sure if this version is actually more readable or not. Some might prefer it...

A stencil design in which diagonal cuts are used to imply angles and curves. It does not quite obey the rules of a segmented display, but it tries its best!

This is inspired by some text I put on the side of the Sheepslayer Mk.2, a flying dragon car piloted by Lyll "Hatch" Soretti in my game Seven Candles.

A more bookish take on Comicool, made for more comfortable general reading. It's still useful for comics, as well!

Many letters were squared off in the corners, lowercase letters were given stems, and an assortment of glyphs were edited for more style.

This is the third iteration of Comicool... rather than develop them all toward one style, I tried to make each iteration the best it could be. The result is three distinct, but still compatible styles. This one is probably the best for body text!

A half-sized, filterless version of Comicool Unicase which also has square terminals.

This has lowercase, but is made for all-caps comic book style lettering, so consider the lowercase as something added for accessibility's sake...

A trimmed-down version of Byblos Unicase! It has a distinctive "constantly underscored" look.

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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

A font with a vague "selected text", "telegraphed message" or "hacker terminal" feeling about it. Seems like something that would be in a video game or creepypasta...

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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

An alternate system font for the Virtual Gremlin, a software-based games prototyping system I wrote in 2016-2017. This font ended up never being used.

This was only able to be recovered due to the advent of a lucky screenshot which a friend posted online. The font was in a spritesheet which was being shown off, so I was able to FontStruct it!

A mostly-4x5 design made for legibility, aesthetics, and an almost authoritarian regularity. This makes it suited for comics, tutorials, general reading, and more. It can be easily read at its original size with the same effort it would take to read a high-res design of the same size.

This design has been tested and reported to make an excellent font for IRC and other chat clients!

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Original size: 4.5pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A 7x7 outline design which is made to form solid-looking masses from the glyphs while still allowing the outer perimeters of words to take on some unique shapes.

Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A font made to reskin a particular roguelike game. This is made to look cold and slightly insidious. I accomplished this by using a 6x6 grid which, apart from being a slightly odd size, gives the forms asymmetry and makes their enclosed parts look as if they're squinting or sneering. Best seen on letters like ABKPRVY.

Monospacing helps give the whole thing regularity and reinforces the clinical/overly-serious feeling.

The game this is made for has very few ASCII glyphs. But, I will expand this to support all ASCII characters soon. I know many games (CDDA, DCSS, DF) support new tilesets so maybe I'll optimize this for those kinds of games...

See also: Nobody's Treasure

I came up with an original high-res design, then brickswapped to turn everything into square bricks. The result sort of reminds me of Proxima Punch Pixel Squared, but less art deco and more computer-esque. It has a really old and naive look to it which could make it good for retro-terminal use.

"Buttons Foe" = "Obtuse Font". Not only is it an obtuse font in look and construction, it's reminescent of an era when computers were thought of as adversarial, magic voodoo boxes. So both the name and the anagram are equally applicable. :^)

The most friendly and rounded 5x5 pixel design I can make! It gives me a "The Simpsons" feeling - the sort of font I'd expect to see in a well-made Simpsons game.

"Sage Rigour" = "Gregarious".

Experimental 12-segment display. This is my attempt at making an ultra-small segmented display suitable for printing on actual pixel art screens. As far as I know, this is the first fusion of Latin-style microfont and segmented display.

Initially I tried making this with 3px long segments, but the result looked almost exactly like Calculatrix 12. So I shrank it down to 5x5 to ensure it would take on its own look.

Of course, your pixel art style still needs to be a pretty big one for this font to work well - I recommend a display area of 82*7px or more.

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See also:Pandora's Blocks

Joketext font from ESOSLite. This is very similar to the original ESOS Lite Terminal, but turned 90 degrees counterclockwise.

This text prints in one or two ways: either as it displays here on-site or in a RTL columnar format where the body of text is rotated back 90 degrees clockwise. The latter is usually used for jokes about weeaboos; I play 100% Orange Juice and watch Katekyō Hitman Reborn!  so I pretty much am one.

Been a while since I did any regular polygonal designs, so here's my go at octagons.

This one was on my backburner list... expect more glyphs soon.

A minimalist Gemscript (or a corrupted one, depending on who you ask).

It has no relation to Pigpen Cipher, although a few glyphs do look like they're from that cipher. Feel free to use this fact to throw amateur cryptographers off for amusement.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Another Gemscript-esque 5x5. This one twists and obscures the forms moreso than its predecessors. 

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Just an octagonal sans-serif design that I kept working on here and there.

"Are ya EVIL?" - Racer X, "Evil Joe"

Another 5x5 pixel design. This one splits one line or intersection per letter for most letters, leading to a tech/sci-fi look.

Only the comma is allowed to go below the line; all other glyphs fit onto the 5x5 grid. Because this font is quantized to the grid, diacritic accents won't be possible. Feel free to move the comma above the line to suit your global matrix.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

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See also: Byzantine Exasperation

A terminal font used in several of my own games. Think of it as my own replacement font for a DOS prompt. It is meant for all-uppercase terminal use and does not have extended language support.

This design has been further refined since its initial Fontstruction. I have improved its aesthetics as well as its visual interpretability using Marinanian methods. This is still a design with more functionality than aesthetic appeal, though.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

See also:Amalgarmada, Amalgarmada 2

Lowercase only!

This font used to be the lowercase for Spacekapitan. I cloned Spacekapitan so I could keep this, then reworked Spacekapitan into what it is now. Then I continued working on this font to make it the best it could be, and here we see the result. It has almost nothing but 90-degree angles.

This is mostly built around a 5x5 square which makes its way into most glyphs in some way or another.

I think this would make a good companion font for "Your Quota".

High-res version of Marengi.

This is made to be ultramodern and ultraregular, just as high-tech futuristic corporations are wont to make their fonts.

MIV: 7.94

Recommended: Use with kerning and antialiasing turned ON!