This font was inspired by Johannes Gutenberg’s Black Letter, and the iconic 8 bit font. I wanted to make a font that would be found in an old arcade or some odd Nintendo Gameboy role playing game.
The challenge of making this font was trying to make it simple like the original 8 bit font but still have it be ornate like the Black Letter. I believe that I met the challenge and I was also able to make a lower case set which adds more readability to the big blocky upper case. While it became more readable it is still more of a display font.
Created By Abigail Otis
SUPER MA(RE-)O BROS.
A bitmap typeface family that recaps the classic fonts that were used for 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System game "Super Mario Bros."
-- It's a large piece that covers a bit of everything. And two seporate typefaces will be published the following days to accompany this one seemlessly.
both more less finished as well, but changes were made in this one that requires the other two to be fixed again in order to seemlessly work together before getting published, So stay tuned!
About this fist part:
It combines not just the two (title screen and ingame regular text)fonts used for this game, but also includes dingbats related to the game, and combines it all into one single typeface!
The sample will only display correctly at exact pixel size or double the value of this due to dither gradients that otherwise not show as a solid surfaces.
Basic and Extended Latin - letters seen at title screen
Superscripts and Subscripts - regular text font (only partial alphabet, as according to the unicode standard for this block)
Miscellaneous Symbols - miscellaneous dingbats related to the game such as emoji's and blocks to make seemless ornamental features like seen ingame
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms - regular text font but with full suport for both uppercase & lowercase, as well as numerals and basic punctuation.
Enjoy!
The name Pos Ya is my original thought to when I finished the font meaning it's done, there, finally, it is in spanish. It is a long and skinny font that can be used in different ways. Experimented different versions and this was a top version that is stil legiable to use.
Recreation of the pixel font used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1982). Note the block element characters, set to their equivalent unicode points (U+2596 through to U+259F). Only the characters present in the computer's character set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font used in the Sinclair ZX80 (1980). Note that some of the block element characters don't have a modern unicode equivalent, and have therefore been remapped (with the medium shade lower half block at U+2581 and the medium shade upper half block at U+2594). Only the characters present in the computer's character set have been included.
This is a clone of ZX SpectrumRecreation of the pixel font from Mastertronic's "Spellbound" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64.
The same font was reused (with a few minor changes to punctuation/special characters) in the sequels "Knight Tyme" (1986) and "Stormbringer" (1987)
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Clive Townsend/Durell Software's "Saboteur" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
The same font was reused in "Saboteur 2" (aka "Saboteur II: Avenging Angel", 1987).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
A faithful, authentic, all-caps, nostalgic 8-bit font based on 1st-party Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Duck Hunt, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Clu Clu Land, Pinball, Gyromite, Baseball, Urban Champion, and of course, as the name says in the font, Super Mario Bros.!
Featuring a grand total of 1085 glyphs! If we do glyph number translation, 1085 translates to October 1985, back when the Nintendo Entertainment System first launched in North America!
Now you're typing with power!
Recreation of the pixel font from Ashby Computers and Graphics / Ultimate Play the Game's "Martianoids" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Something I had been on and and off again working on for some time, making sure everything looked alright before I so much as thought about placing this creation onto here for all to witness.
Decided to impose a limit on myself when creating this font, such as width and height after being inspired by seeing translations of old video games. I had to get a bit creative with some of the characters and how I could make them look good without butchering them too badly.
I do hope you enjoy using this font as much as I enjoyed making it.
7/4/22 - Decided to add a VI to the name of the font, after the width I limited myself to using.
27/4/22 - Came across two glyphs that needed a bit of fixing, the registered sign, which was a width over, and Single Low-9 Quotation Mark, which needed to be moved a pixel down.
Hi there! This is my first attempt at a pixel font, so don't expect much
This font currently supports:
Latin Basic
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier
Greek And Coptic
Cyrillic
Cyrillic Supplement
Armenian
General Punctuation
Latin Extended-C (Unfinished)
Latin Extended-D (Unfinished)
Leafonetix
(sorry if i couldn't make combining diacritical marks lmao)
More Coming Soon!!!
Might update this every 2 or 3 days!!
I found a font rip from "Footballer of the Year" and the upper case letters were identical to Gauntlet, so I took the lower case ones and added them. Have called it "Gauntlet Potion" as "Gauntlet Deeper Dungeons" was too long. I don't really care for the lower case letters that much... it's here if anyone wants it for variety.
This is a clone of GauntletPresenting Nihon Bussan (or Nichibutsu)'s Booby kids (aka. Kid No Hore Hore Daisuken or Heiyanko Alien), released both consoles in 1987: NES, Famicom, PC-8801 and Arcade. This font is the same to "Mag Max" (1985), created by Goatmeal, "Dangar Ufo Robo" (1986) and "Terra Cresta" (1985), created by Patrick H. Lauke.
This is a clone of Terra CrestaPresenting Gametek and Gremlin's Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing, released in 1993. This font is similar to Addams Family, Parasol Stars and Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge.
This is a clone of Ferrari Grand Prix ChallengeRecreation of the pixel font from MD Software/Activision's "Knightmare" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
This is yet another use of the same font I first stumbled on in the "Dizzy" games, with slightly different punctuation marks/special characters. This time at least, there's a connection to "Last Ninja 2" (which also uses this font), as they're both by the same programmer, Mev Dinc.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Dizzy III - Fantasy World Dizzy