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 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 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 one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", "j", "z", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
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 2 (Variant 1) (Mono)Recreation of the pixel font from Delphine Software's "Shaq Fu" (1994) on the SNES. Identical to the pixel font from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version, but with a handful of additional special characters. This recreation also includes additional ";" and straight double quotes characters. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the large (16x16) pixel font from LJN/Software Creations' "Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage" (1994) on the SNES and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. 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 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)Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
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 2 (Variant 2) (Mono)Recreation of the main pixel font from Acclaim/Software Creations' "Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety" (1995) on the SNES and 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 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 primary pixel font from Konami's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist" (aka "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder", 1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The game uses a crisp, non-antialiased version of the same font used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1989) and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" (1991) arcade machines. The same font was also used in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time" (1992) Super Nintendo port.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from the Clockwork Tortoise's Sega CD / Mega CD version of "The Adventures of Batman & Robin" (1995) on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
The font is used for the title screen and end credits. Note the one lowercase "c", needed for the credit for background artist "Rae McCarson".
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 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 large pixel font from Extended Play Productions' "Chakan: The Forever Man" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
With the exception of the single quote/apostrophe, 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sega's "Golden Axe II" (1991) 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.
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 DownA thin proportional font, based on the title sequence of the Bitmap Brothers' "Chaos Engine" (1993).
Designed to be used aliased at a size of 9px (or multiples thereof).
Originally created in 2004 based on the Amiga version, and extended in 2012. Repackaged in 2022, with a small tweak to the exclamation, question, and quote marks, and the addition of the ampersand from the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES versions.
Last (hopefully) final tweaks now 27/08/2022, fixing the "G", "V", "X", "1", "9", adding a copyright symbol, and tweaking the spacing and vertical position of some of the punctuation marks, referencing the SNES version some more.
Recreation 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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
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.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", "j", "z", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of ToeJam & Earl (Variant 1) (Mono)Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Johnson Voorsanger Productions/Sega's "ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is almost exactly the same as the equivalent variant in "ToeJam & Earl" (1991), with the exception of the "b", zero, and some of the punctuation marks.
In the game, this font is dynamically switched with another variant, creating an animated text effect.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of ToeJam & Earl (Variant 2) (Mono)Recreation of the small pixel font from Sega's "Ristar" (1995) 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.