Recreation of the pixel font from Irem's "Kaiketsu Yancha Maru 2: Karakuri Land" (1991) on the NES.
Despite being a Japan-only release, the game only has a partial/incomplete set of hiragana, and only a handful of katakana characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Technōs/Acclaim's "Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone" (aka "Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the Japanese version uses a different/thin exclamation mark. This recreation only includes the bold version of the exclamation mark used in the European and US versions.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from the Japanese version of Nihon Falcom's "Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished: Omen" (aka "Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished", "Ys: The Vanished Omens", 1987) on the Sega Master System.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note that the original font also included a small error, where a pixel from や (U+3084, hiragana letter Ya) is mistakenly added to the right of も (U+3082, hiragana letter Mo). This mistake is included in this recreation as well.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Some time after I decided to unleash Pixelbabania VI Deluxe onto the world, I deemed it appropriate to also create a light version to go alongside it. Had a good bit of fun making sure things looked right with this font, which also explains why I decided to fix its sister font while I was at it.
Here it is, at last. And just in time for the start of a new season, wherever in the world you all are.
4/12/2023 : Fixed up a few more glyphs of Box Drawing to make them work proper with their fellow glyphs.
I remember fondly playing Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls on the Game Boy Advance, FF1 in particular one of my favourite of the two games, which I had replayed a good number of times. As I became curious about the game once again, I started looking it up and started gazing at the fonts used, started looking up the font for it, and came across a resource sheet that contained all the characters for both Basic Latin and other languages, then I started to think about how the font changed looks in certain characters in other titles, such as the 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV and The 4 Heroes of Light, both games released for the Nintendo DS. I started thinking to myself, what if there was a monospaced version of this font?
And so, I got to work, thinking how it would all look if Square Enix indeed decided to go monospace for all the characters intstead of only the numbers for the GBA FF games and even had most of the small letters and even numbers expand horizontally by one pixel and even went the extra mile to add Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic and even Hiragana and Katakana. Not content with this, I even decided to add in a few extra things and even decided to add in characters used in computers of old, namely Box Drawing and Block Elements.
A bit of a "quick" project that I am finally happy to release onto the world.
5/12/23 : Fixed up some glyphs in the Box Drawing set. Now they should look nicer and fit with the rest good and proper.
Updates:
Added Kana Extended and Kanbun
Constructed script for a conlang (5x5 version). Katakana keyboard setting required to use.
人工文字は人工言語を為(5x5バージョン)。カタカナキーボード設定は所要に使う。
Pretty much abandoned currently. Do with whatever you will.
Just please give credit, lest the effort go in vein.
Recreation of the pixel font from Tokuma Shoten/Telenet Japan's "Valis" (aka "Mugen Senshi Valis", 1987) on the Nintendo Famicom.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana, as well as a handful of katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the small pixel font from Quintet/Ancient/Enix's "Slapstick" (1994) on the SNES.
Note that the western release, "Robotrek", uses a different (and much blander/classic 8 bit) font.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them 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 Bandai's "Dirty Pair: Project Eden" (1987) on the Nintendo Famicom/NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
The game also includes a handful of katakana characters. As they were only limited to the few characters used on the start screen, these have been omitted. Otherwise, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Sunsoft's "Ufouria: The Saga" (aka "Hebereke", 1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them 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 Data East's "Captain America and The Avengers" (1991) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
I took a look at the very first font I published and looking back at it now, I couldn't help but think I could have done better and gone much further with it. Having learned a few things along the way when I was working on the light version of Pixelbabania, I decided to invest some time into working on a much improved version of Pixelbabania VI, while once again following a self-imposed limitation. This time, I decided to go with 6x9 (with some exceptions) to allow a bit more wriggle room and to make characters with accents much nicer, and even decided to change up some of the characters to improve their look. Not only this, I decided I'd try and see if it was possible to add more characters from other sets and thus far, it had gone quite nicely.
After so much time on and off, now I share with you the fruits of my labor and love.
Note: I have done what I could to get N'ko and to a lesser extent Adlam to play nice; unfortunately I could not get the tone marks to actually just go above or below the characters properly, therefore they will take residence right next to the character, taking up another space. Apologies for any inconvenience caused to those who type in those languages.
04/12/23 : Fixed up a few more glyphs in Box Drawing to make them look and work proper with the others.
Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Goof Troop: Pirate Island Adventure" (1993) on the SNES.
This recreation uses the special TTF+SVG format, which currently has limited support. For a monochrome version, see this recreation.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
This is a clone of Goof TroopRecreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Goof Troop: Pirate Island Adventure" (1993) on the SNES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Based on https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2155925/threebyfive-6 but extended to 5x5, so cyrillic greek and kana are more readable.
Crisp at sizes multiple of 4.5 (9)
This is a clone of ThreeByFiveRecreation of the main monospaced pixel font from Ape Inc./Hal Laboratory's "Mother 2: Gīgu no Gyakushū" ("MOTHER2ギーグの逆襲", 1994) on the Super Famicom/SNES.
This is notably different from the proportional font used in the western release, EarthBound.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters.
Note the superscript double zeroes have been mapped to the em dash (U+2015).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
There was no glyphs latin on Patrick H. Lauke Redux's font so go check it out: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1644314/akumajo-densetsu-nes
I used to clone them, so I can help Patrick Lauke to complete this font with letters on it.
This is a clone of Akumajō Densetsu (NES)Recreation of the pixel font from Capcom's "Willow" (1989) on the NES.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them 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 Capcom/Victor Musical Industries' "Tiger Road" (aka "Tora e no Michi", 1990) on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them 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 Jaleco's "Totally Rad" (aka "Magic John", 1990) on the NES/Famicom.
The font includes a complete set of hiragana characters, but only a limited/partial set of katakana characters.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Nihon Bussan/Nichibutsu's "Comso Police Galivan" (1985) on the NES/Famicom.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Jaleco's "Rival Turf!" (aka "Rushing Beat", 1992) on the SNES.
This font is used for the main menu, intro/outro cinematics, and end credits.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. A few of the katakana characters were missing in the game's tile set, so I've attempted to include custom characters in a similar style. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
With the exception of the few additional katakana glyphs, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "Death Brade" (aka "Mutant Fighters", 1991).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the thin pixel font from HOT・B/Flying Edge's "Steel Empire" (1992) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
This font is used for start screen, mission briefings, and end credits.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned in a line above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them 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 Westone/Sega's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (aka "Wonder Boy V: Monster World III", 1991) on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
a pixelated unicode font that can be read at small sizes.
14 sept '22, 17:47:11 hkt / massive update. added coptic, spacing modifier letters and improved readability.
Recreation of the pixel font from Hudson Soft's "The Dynastic Hero" (1993) on the PC Engine - a remake/rebrand of Westone's "Wonder Boy in Monster World" (1991).
The font includes an almost complete set of hiragana and katakana characters. In the tile set, the dakuten and handakuten are separate tiles, positioned vertically above their respective character. In this recreation, characters that use them are pre-combined into a single glyph.
Note the special circled roman numerals "Ⅰ" and "Ⅱ", which have been mapped to "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit One" (U+278A) and "Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Two" (U+278B).
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.
Recreation of the pixel font from Data East's "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" (1990).
This font includes a full set of hiragana and katakana, even though they're not actually used in the game.
Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.