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Recreation 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 pixel font from Sega's "Gigas" (1986).
Oddly, the game was then bootlegged/modified by Nihon Systems as "Omega" (1986), though it appears that it was never widely released.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Feeling inspired after reading Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type by Toshi Omagari, I set out to make my own 8x8 pixel font. I worked with a similar approach to the one I used in the larger grid font offstruct rgb.
First started in Adobe Illustrator, each character consists of three iterations of the same 6x6 pixel letter: in RGB Red, Green and Blue. These were layered, offset by one pixel diagonally, filling the 8x8 box. To achieve additive blending, I applied the "Lighten" transparancy setting. Combinations of overlaying these three primary RGB colours result in the secondary RGB coloured pixels Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. In the additive mixing of coloured lights, the equal blending of all three primary colours results in White. All pixels were then entered manually into the fontstructor and black pixels were added for display purposes.
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 RezonRecreation of the main pixel font from Kaneko/Taito's "Prebillian" (1986).
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
In the game, the colours in the font are generally cycling. This recreation uses one specifically pleasing combination of colours during these constant transitions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of PrebillianRecreation 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 BIOS pixel font from Takumi's "Giga Wing" (1999).
This font is used on the initial boot-up screen, region warning, and test menu.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
The classic pixel font from the early days of video games - Taito's "Space Invaders" (1978). An early version of this font was already used in games like Taito's "Circus" (1977) and Exidy's "Robot Bowl" (1977). This extended edition also includes additional characters found in later games, like Taito's "Lunar Rescue" (1979), "Space Chaser" (1979), Exidy's "Crash" (1979) and SNK's "Ozma Wars" (1979).
This is a clone of Space Invaders (extended)Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" (1991).
This font is used for the score, "You win"/"You lose"/"Bonus stage"/"Start !" messages, and the after-fight taunts.
Note that in the game, only the uppercase characters are used. In the ROM, the lowercase characters are vertically misaligned - this recreation fixes this, setting them to the same baseline as the uppercase. Apart from this change, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior" (1991).
This font is used for the score, "You win"/"You lose"/"Bonus stage"/"Start !" messages, and the after-fight taunts.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (TTF+SVG) format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
Note that in the game, only the uppercase characters are used. In the ROM, the lowercase characters are vertically misaligned - this recreation fixes this, setting them to the same baseline as the uppercase. Apart from this change, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Street Fighter II (Large)Recreation of one of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This font is used for the score counter, "You win"/"You lose", in-fight messages (for first hits, combos, etc.), and the after-match taunts.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the large pixel font from Capcom's "Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers" (1993).
This font is used for the score counter, "You win"/"You lose", in-fight messages (for first hits, combos, etc.), and the after-match taunts.
Some of the characters (such as the "M") are one pixel wider than the overall monospaced character width of 12 pixels, so their drop shadow overlaps/falls behind the following character, which is game-accurate.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (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 Street Fighter II (Large)Recreation of one of the large pixel fonts from Capcom's "Street Fighter Alpha" (aka "Street Fighter Zero", 1995).
This font is used for the "Insert coin", "Join in", "Press start", "Continue", and "Good!" messages during the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the large pixel fonts from Capcom's "Street Fighter Alpha" (aka "Street Fighter Zero", 1995).
This font is used for the "Insert coin", "Join in", "Press start", "Continue", and "Good!" messages during the game.
This recreation uses the special OpenType SVG (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 Street Fighter Alpha (Large)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 one of the pixel fonts from Video System's "Aero Fighters" (aka "Sonic Wings", 1992). This font is used for the pilot names and post-level taunts. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Clone of Gradius Dings. Dingbats [gender and horoscope] from Gradius / Nemesis, (C) 1985 Konami
This is a clone of Gradius DingsRecreation of the primary pixel font from Taito's "Operation Wolf" (1987). With the exception of an additional ";", all other characters are recreated here as they are present in the game's tile set (despite their slightly odd/inconsistent vertical positioning).
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Escape Kids" (1991).
Note the "greek small letter alpha" (U+03B1), "white circle" (U+25CB) and the pointing finger icon, mapped to "rightwards arrow" (U+2192).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.