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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 SerifRecreation of the large pixel font from Atari's "Super Bug" (1977) and "Fire Truck" (aka "Smokey Joe", 1978).
In the games, the font is incomplete. Both lack a "Q", "V" and "W", which I made from scratch for this recreation, trying to approximate the overall style/feel. The "J" is present in "Super Bug", but not "Fire Truck". Conversely, the "K" is present in "Fire Truck" only.
With the exception of the added letters, only the characters present in the games' tilesets have been included.
[Version 2.1]: Added "More Latin" Character Set.
[Version 2]: Fixed differences between the real font (from the NES or arcades) and the original (by me).
NES/Arcade Font.
This is a clone of NES/Arcade Font MonospaceRecreation of the small variant of a fancy-looking unused pixel font found in Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
To my knowledge, this is not used anywhere in the game. Note the accented/special characters, which are shared with the larger variant of the same font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (F)Recreation of a fancy-looking unused pixel font found in Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
To my knowledge, this is not used anywhere in the game. Note the accented/special characters, which are shared with a smaller variant of the same font.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996).
While the letters and numbers are the same as "Knights of the Round" (1991) (with the exception of the oddly modified "g", "j" and "y"), this game changes most of the punctuation/special characters, and adds a large number of extended/accented latin characters (though there is also a variant set, which isn't as complete and looks rather awful).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Knights of the RoundRecreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "Syvalion" (1988).
The original has an additional subtle 1px border around all characters, which acts as basic antialiasing. In this recreation, this border has been removed.
Note the "black circle" (U+25CF), "medium shade" (U+2592), and the round "target" character that has been mapped to "currency symbol" (U+00A4)
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Taito's "Darius" (1987), also reused in "Darius II" (1989).
In the tile set for "Darius", the "$" was missing a few pixels - this was addressed in "Darius II", and this recreation contains the dollar sign from the latter version.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Ace International's "Pocket Gals V.I.P." (aka "Gals Hustler", 1996).
In the game, it is used both as a proportional and monospaced font. For this recreation, I stuck with just the monospaced approach.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nihon System Inc/Data East's "Pocket Gal Deluxe" (1992).
This recreation includes the ball number icons, mapped to the relevant unicode "Enclosed Alphanumerics" characters (U+2460 - U+2469).
The spacing of some of the punctuation/special characters (not used in the actual game) was tweaked, to make them more usable.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Diet Go GoRecreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Diet Go Go" (1992).
The spacing of some of the punctuation/special characters (not used in the actual game) was tweaked, to make them more usable.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the remastered "Pac-Man" "arrangement" version from the "Namco Classic Collection Vol.2" (1996). Note the smaller "u" and "p" in the lowercase. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996). This font is used primarily for the dialog boxes and the chapter names shown at the start of each level. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Update (August 2019): added the missing special/accented characters.
Taken from the story screens from Capcom's 1989 arcade brawler Final Fight. (Interestingly, this font can also be found in the tile set from the Street Fighter 2 arcade game). Accented letters are completely custom.
Recreation of the italic pixel font from Capcom's "Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara" (1996). This font is very sparingly used in the game - apparently, just for the character names, SP/HP counters, and (partially at least) the inventory ring interface.
This font includes a near complete set of hiragana and katakana characters, as well as a wide range of special characters (such as a full set of zodiac symbols).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A fairly obscure video game font for you, this being the serifed font from thte 'Puyo Puyo' series of video games (if that name sounds unfamiliar, these games were reskinned in North American and released as 'Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine' and 'Kirby's Avalanche'.)
The base alphabet, numbers, and several punctuation are all authentic to the game (the inverted ? and ! are always easy to make, which is why I always include them, even if not a part of the game proper). However, there's plenty of custom glyph work here with the punctuation and the accented lettering.
Enjoy!