Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is unusual, as each character not only comprises two tiles (for its height), but also features characters that are wider than the maximum 8px tiles. In the game's tile set, this was achieved by using a custom encoding, where a single tile contains the combined values for two horizontal tiles.
See this short Twitter thread for a little dissection of the tile set.
The width of each character is also variable and encoded in the bottom tile for each character. Unfortunately, I was unable to work out the logic behind the width information bits - so, for characters used in the game, the correct width was matched manually, and for any characters not encountered (yet) in any of the dialog boxes, I took an educated guess...
Due to the complexity of this encoding, I won't tackle the hiragana/katakana large font from the japanese release.
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 colour pixel font from The Bitmap Brother's "Gods" (1991) port on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Note that in the game, there is also a separate set of 0-9 numbers used for the score counter. This recreation only includes the slightly "cut off" letters and numbers used on the title screen, status messages, and high-score screen.
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 thin pixel font from Konami's "Contra: Hard Corps" (aka "Probotector", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used for dialogue lines, such as the mission briefings and short conversations before/after boss battles.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force II" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force II" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The font also lacks a lowercase.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, 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.
This is a clone of Shining Force II (Small)Recreation of the pixel font from Ocean's "Addams Family Values" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Note the skull character, mapped to "skull and crossbones" (U+2620).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sculptured Software/Acclaim's "Virtual Bart" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and 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 cloneRecreation of the primary pixel font (used for the title screen and highscores) from Rainbow Arts/Factor 5's "Turrican" (1990) and "Turrican II" (1991) on the Amiga. Note the special characters mapped to "lightning" (U+2607), "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) and "black heart suit" (U+2665).
The same font - with a reduced number of special characters - was also used in "Mega Turrican" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and the first "Super Turrican" (1993) on the SNES.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Activision's "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES.
The font is the same between the two platforms, with the exception of punctuation characters - this recreation combines the best characters of both version.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Activision's "Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure" (1994) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the SNES.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The font is the same between the two platforms, with the exception of punctuation characters - this recreation combines the best characters of both version.
Beyond that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Pitfall: The Mayan AdventureRecreation of the small pixel font from the japanese release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Compared to the european/north american release, the alphanumeric and punctuation characters are all shifted by one pixel to the left, and one pixel down. The "U" is also different, and the font lacks a lowercase.
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the game's tileset, 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.
This is a clone of Shining Force (Small)Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Streets of Rage" (aka "Bare Knuckle", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters used in the game have been included.
Minor update 2 Dec 2018: referring back to the actual tile set in the game's ROM, added the "?" and apostrophe, and corrected ":" and ";"
Recreation of the pixel font used for the intro cinematic and end credits in Konami's "Castlevania: Bloodlines" (aka "Castlevania: The New Generation", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Castlevania: Bloodlines (Menu)Recreation of the pixel font used for the menu and options screen in Konami's "Castlevania: Bloodlines" (aka "Castlevania: The New Generation", 1994) on the Sega Mega Drive. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from the european/north american release of Climax Entertainment/Sonic! Software Planning's "Shining Force" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile 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 small bold pixel font from Sega's "Eternal Champions 2" (1995) on the Sega Mega CD.
Mostly the same as the primary pixel font from "Eternal Champions" (1993), but with slight differences in punctuation and a few extra symbols.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Eternal ChampionsRecreation of the pixel font from Namco's "Splatterhouse 3" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
The font uses an unusual spacing, where the uppercase characters, the numbers, the ampersand, and the question mark have a width of two tiles / 16px, and the lowercase characters and remaining punctuation marks have a width of one tile / 8px.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
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 "ESWAT: City under Siege" (1990) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used in the opening cinematic.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from SCi Games's "Super SWIV" (1992) on the SNES / "Mega SWIV" on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Aprinet's "Eliminate Down" (1993) 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 Eliminate DownRecreation 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 one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl" (1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
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 ToeJam & Earl (Variant 2) (Mono)