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3 1710 Published: 8th September, 2019
Last edited: 8th September, 2019
Created: 7th September, 2019

Recreation of the pixel font from Century Electronics' "Space Fortress" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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8 3761 Published: 15th July, 2019
Last edited: 15th July, 2019
Created: 14th July, 2019

Recreation of the pixel font from Nintendo's "Donkey Kong Classics" (1988) on the NES, which combines the fonts from "Donkey Kong" (1981) and "Donkey Kong Jr." (1982).

The one distinctive feature of this font are the "G" and the exclamation mark. Note that in the original "Donkey Kong" (1981) the period/full stop and the ".," (mapped here to the ";") were one pixel higher than in the "Classics" version. In addition, this recreation includes the maths symbols ("+", "-", "×", "÷") from "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" (1983). "Donkey Kong Jr. Math" and "Donkey Kong 3" (1983) also used this same font, except they changed the "8".

Other than the additions of the maths symbols, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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23 18774 Published: 22nd November, 2018
Last edited: 22nd November, 2018
Created: 16th November, 2018

Trying my hand at another movie logo font, inspired by the terrific posters for 1981's "Escape From New York". Kern at your own peril.

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19 0941 Published: 4th April, 2017
Last edited: 4th April, 2017
Created: 28th February, 2017

A retro-modern display font, inspired by video game fonts of the 1980's.

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10 1810 Published: 8th January, 2017
Last edited: 8th January, 2017
Created: 8th January, 2017

Recreation of the pixel font from Universal's "Snap Jack" (1982). This font is identical to the one from "Cosmic Avenger" (1981), but includes an additional single quote mark. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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3 3730 Published: 16th July, 2016
Last edited: 16th July, 2016
Created: 16th July, 2016

3 3701 Published: 10th May, 2016
Last edited: 10th May, 2016
Created: 9th May, 2016
Clone of Teddy Boy Blues/Sega Ninja.This is a clone of Teddy Boy Blues/Sega Ninja

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22 1763 Published: 1st October, 2014
Last edited: 29th September, 2014
Created: 29th September, 2014
Recreation of the small pixel font from Williams Electronics / Vid Kidz "Stargate" (aka "Stargate Defender", "Defender II", 1981). The horizontal arrows are those used in the arcade machine's settings screen. Only the characters present in the game have been included.

Pixel Optimized

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12 1721 Published: 1st October, 2014
Last edited: 29th September, 2014
Created: 29th September, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Williams Electronics / Vid Kidz "Stargate" (aka "Stargate Defender", "Defender II", 1981). Only the characters present in the game have been included.

Pixel Optimized

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8 1631 Published: 14th September, 2014
Last edited: 12th September, 2014
Created: 12th September, 2014

Recreation of the pixel font from Bally Midway's "Satan's Hollow" (1981). It has been reused for other games such as "Max RPM" (1986). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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236 0983 Published: 3rd September, 2014
Last edited: 20th September, 2014
Created: 3rd September, 2014

Font used in the urban legend, Polybius. I made the font for the fun of it. I hope you guys enjoy it!

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9 1621 Published: 9th March, 2014
Last edited: 24th February, 2014
Created: 23rd February, 2014
Recreation of the primary pixel font from Sega's "Astro Blaster" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Monospaced

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13 2661 Published: 6th March, 2014
Last edited: 20th February, 2014
Created: 20th February, 2014
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Space Odyssey" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Monospaced

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12 2672 Published: 11th January, 2014
Last edited: 10th December, 2013
Created: 10th December, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Konami's "Tactician" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Monospaced

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16 2676 Published: 10th October, 2013
Last edited: 7th October, 2013
Created: 7th October, 2013
Recreation of the font used in Konami's "Turtles" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set (with the addition of the letters "Q" and "Z", which were absent) have been included.

Monospaced

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19 3702 Published: 22nd September, 2013
Last edited: 22nd September, 2013
Created: 22nd September, 2013
Recreation of the unusual 7x7 large pixel font used in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. The German and French version of the game feature language-specific characters, but these have not been included since they were technically constructed from two separate characters on two subsequent lines.

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15 1732 Published: 21st September, 2013
Last edited: 20th September, 2013
Created: 20th September, 2013
Recreation of the unusual 5x5 small pixel font used in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included. The German and French version of the game feature language-specific characters, but these have not been included since they were technically constructed from two separate characters on two subsequent lines.

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8 1771 Published: 4th September, 2013
Last edited: 22nd August, 2013
Created: 6th August, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Universal's "Cosmic Avenger" (1981). Note the little space invader character, which was mapped to the "skull and crossbones" (U+2620) code point. Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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13 21112 Published: 28th August, 2013
Last edited: 28th August, 2013
Created: 9th May, 2013
Combined and expanded version of the pixel font used in most Exidy games - notably "Mouse Trap" (1981), "Teeter Torture" (1982), "Catch-22"/"Combat" (1985), "Crackshot" (1985), "Chiller" (1986), "Top Secret" (1986), "Hit 'n Miss" (1987), "Showdown" (1988) and "Who Dunit" (1988). A few characters (in particular the lowercase and some punctuation) have been tweaked for better kerning.This is a clone of Mouse Trap

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11 4813 Published: 30th May, 2013
Last edited: 30th May, 2013
Created: 29th May, 2013
Recreation of the classic Taito pixel font used in early games like Space Cruiser (1981), Alpine Ski (1982), Birdie King (1982), Front Line (1982), Jungle King (1982), Wild Western (1982) and Elevator Action (1983). Note the spaceship icon, which has been mapped to the "airplane" dingbat (U+2708).

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11 3673 Published: 11th May, 2013
Last edited: 11th May, 2013
Created: 8th May, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font used in Exidy's classic "Mouse Trap" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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55 1754 Published: 12th April, 2013
Last edited: 12th April, 2013
Created: 12th April, 2013
This pixel font recreation is a combination of the font used in Centuri's "Phoenix" (1980, developed by Amstar) its follow-up "Pleiads" (1981, by Tehkan aka Tecmo) and SNK's "Safari Rally" (1979, NOT distributed by Centuri, raising some questions about the true origin of this font). Only the characters present in the tile sets of the games have been included.

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14 4954 Published: 22nd January, 2013
Last edited: 29th April, 2013
Created: 21st January, 2013
Recreation of the font used in Universal Games' classic "Lady Bug" (1981), and later in "Mr. Do!" (1982), "Mr. Do's Castle" (1983), "Mr. Do's Wild Ride" (1984) and "Jumping Jack" (1984). This font has been slightly expanded with a few extra characters. Note the heart icon, which is mapped to the "black heart" (U+2665) unicode point. UPDATED to include the more correct @ symbol and to remap the heart icon from * to unicode point.

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20 12855 Published: 4th March, 2012
Last edited: 2nd March, 2012
Created: 25th February, 2012
Guess which movie I watched almost 30 years ago on a VHS rental tape? Inspired by the logo from "Outland" (1981).

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12 1102 Published: 29th February, 2020
Last edited: 22nd September, 2013
Created: 22nd September, 2013
Recreation of the additional 8x8 large pixel font used just for the score counter in Taito's "Qix" (1981) and "Qix II - Tournament" (1982). Only the number characters have been included.

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12 1753 Published: 29th February, 2020
Last edited: 1st June, 2013
Created: 1st June, 2013
Recreation of the pixel font from Exidy's "Venture" (1981). Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

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Fontstructions tagged with “1981”

Space Fortress

Donkey Kong Classics (NES) (Extended)

Snake Plissken

eighties evolution

Snap Jack

The Universal Font (1980)

Sega/Gremlin Font (1977-1981)

Stargate (Small)

Stargate

Satan's Hollow

PolybiusCPU

Astro Blaster

Space Odyssey

Tactician

Turtles

Qix (large)

Qix (small)

Cosmic Avenger

Mouse Trap Extended Remix

Space Cruiser

Mouse Trap

Phoenix

Lady Bug

Intern Color

Titanium Mines

Qix (x-large score)

Venture