The Unicode bitmap font from Minecraft, also known as GNU Unifont. The game has a font priority system called "providers" that looks for bitmap data for a specific character in the non-Latin European character set first, then in the accented Latin character set, then in the game's low-res default font, then finally here, in the high-res Unicode character set. You can override this priority system by going into Options... > Language..., then setting "Force Unicode Font" to ON.
The game stores this font in images containing 16 rows and 16 columns of characters. Each character is 16 pixels wide and 16 pixels tall, totalling 256 characters per image. Each image represents one Unicode codepage, and there are 256 pages, which covers characters U+0000 to U+FFFF. Control characters and most CJK characters are omitted here, because FontStruct doesn't officially support them.
The font is not monospace, however, so the effective widths of each character are stored in a separate file called glyph_sizes.bin. Information for each character is stored in one byte, and the upper and lower 4 bits of this byte represent the start column and end column with a number ranging from 0 to 15, where 0 is the leftmost column of the character's allotted 16x16 space, and 15 is the rightmost column, respectively.
Knowing all of this allowed me to automate most of the steps involved in creating this recreation. I did not use the FontStructor to make this, I instead used a program to directly interact with FontStruct's API. It is possible to add unsupported characters to a font with this method, but I chose to stay within the limits of what is officially supported.
Linestrider's two-lined little brother.
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Probably won't update this one again, because it uses a lot of brickswapping and so it is likely to get corrupted by additional editing/saving.
This is a clone of LinestriderEver seen the classic Minecraft font in languages like Russian, Greek, Polish, Vietnamese ... ?
It’s possible by downloading this font.
A pixel font which combines four experimental techniques at once:
1. Structurally disconnecting the stems from the open parts of letters.
2. Allowing glyphs to extend beyond the reaches of width and starting position.
3. Designing glyphs specifically to connect and form new shapes, rather than simply allowing shapes to emerge from existing characteristics.
4. Designing glyphs so that the overall font is free of a need for kerning.
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Alternates are now on UPPER CASE. I'll continue to update this as I get more ideas!
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Original size: 6.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)
I decided to make a design which incorporated the thinnest/lightest weight lines possible in FontStruct. This is the result; I'll add more if people like it.
These 1/32 lines cannot be accurately nudged, so a unique line has to be built for each vertical position where I want a line. These lines also cannot be centered on a place where two curves meet (such as the middle of B or R). This introduces some unintentional asymmetry to the design, but I like it, so I'll keep it.
There is also the problem that forming a diagonal line of the same line weight is nearly impossible. While angled 1/32 lines can be formed, their angles are all close to 0. No method exists for making a line which slants at 45 degrees while also being 1/32 weight. So, I had to make some thicker lines in certain areas. I don't think they detract from the design, but if you scrutinize this enough, you'll notice them.
Updates:
Added Kana Extended and Kanbun
U+E000 is the .notdef glyph.
This is the largest Nokia font ever.
UPDATE [27 JUN 2023]: Fixed "ÿ". U+00FF
UPDATE [29 JUN 2023]: Fixed "ǐ". U+01D0
UPDATE [09 NOV 2023]: Fixed "ـ". U+0640
The first version was made in less than 20 mins!
Currently has 16176 glyphs and counting!
Latest Update: Edited φ and ⱷ to match with the canIPA extensions and edited з and ԑ to match with Cyrillic and -Supplement.
Pro tip for Myanmar: Use ေ and ႄ before a consonant to get the optimal vowel placement.
Pro tip for Devanagari: Use ि and ॎ before a consonant to get the optimal vowel placement.
Hello everyone! This is a font based off of the Casio fx-ES Series Calculator text. I also included Hiragana and Katakana, though they're difficult. Cyrillic is slightly harder, but easy. Alternates are in Private Use Area!
This is Nokia Sans Small Condensed, you might have seen it on your old Nokia phones running with Series 30 or 40 operating systems. Redesigned by ChildishRifty7.
Thanks to ">gtrx<, my E52 good" and Romphonix Club for gathering the font resources of Series 40 3rd Version.
Made under 2 hours at first release.
Changelog:
Nov. 22, 2022 - First Release
Dec. 3, 2022 - Added Indian Rupee letter.
Dec. 25, 2022 - Adjustment and fixes.
Currently Supports:
- English
- Some Latin
- Russian Cyrillic
- Google Fonts
- Georgian
- Hebrew
- Armenian
- Greek
- Thai
- Currency Symbols
- Arabic (WIP)
- Japanese/Katakana
- Bopomofo
~This "is" Minecraft Gnu font, except it has two times better quality and I added much more glyphs! Please tell me what characters should I add next :)
Update log
7/30/2022: Font created.
9/22/2023: Added Vietnamese characters.
10/11/2023: Added Superscripts & Subscripts, currency symbols and Arabic.
WHAT SHOULD I MAKE NEXT?
Version 1.5: All permutations of E and F were refined and improved.
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A modernized, rounded, and truncated version of Marengi. This is made to be a good text editor/chat font. It has very few kerning pairs, so it should render fine in any software.
Ascenders are only allowed to be as tall as the uppercase/numerals, while descenders are allowed to go 2px below the line. This creates a natural line spacing that is readable and not too dense. (Diacritics break this rule, of course... darn them...)
Gone are the curved descenders/termini on letters like gjty. The simpler geometry makes this design more suited to speedreading than its predecessor. In fact, altering those four letters alone improves speedreading on this font by up to 14%!
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09JUN2019: I have been using this as my main IRC/chat font for some time now. Of all my chatfont designs, this has proven the easiest to read and use.
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MIV: 8.31
Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
Formerly known as "Specula".
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By request, a font with the two-toned look of a Pokéball. No filters! The Pokédollar sign can be found on "¢" and a Pokéball is on "•".
"Eviolite" is an item that powers up the defenses of Pokémon that are not fully evolved. Looks like a lavender-colored gem.
An experimental design using 1/8 weight lines alongside 1/16 ones. The 1/8 lines are the smallest that can be accurately nudged. Centering them is still a problem at times, and I need a few impossible composites to perfect the glyphs ABEFHKQRXYijkx34789, but overall I'm quite fond of how this doodle turned out.
I think I could use some intensive compositing to get rid of the central dividing line in glyphs like A and H. I'll give it a try when I can.
Ver. 1.0(Beta, 9.21.2021): 1st release
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Ver. 2.0(Beta): I found an Expert mode, so I added some Kanjis(一, 亜, 咽 and etc.)
Ver. 2.01(2022.05.22, Beta): More extended latin A and Added 31 Kanjis
Ver. 2.02(2022.05.25, Beta): Completed Latin ext_A block
Ver. 2.03(2022.05.26, Beta): Added CJK symbols block
Ver. 2.04(Beta): Plan of adding 20 Kanjis and Fixing glyph bugs
Ver. 2.05(2022.07.10, Beta): Added some of KS X 1001 symbols
Ver. 2.06(2022.07.11): Added 59 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 2.07(2022.07.12):Added some of Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.08(2022.07.13):Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis more Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.09(2022.07.14):Completed Latin Ext_B block and Added 15 glyphs of Hanjis and Fixed some of Hanji glyph's Bugs
Ver. 2.10(2022.07.18):Completed Hangul Compatibility Jamo Block and Added some glyphs of Latin Extended Additional Blocks
Ver. 2.11(2022.07.24):Completed Basic Russian Cylliric letters on 'Cylliric blocks'
Ver. 2.12(2022.07.25):More glyphs on Latin Exteneded Additional Blocks
-(CJK Unified Chinese Character Simplified Chinese Character Addition Start Time)------------------------------------------------------------
Ver. 3.0(2022.09.8~12): Added 30 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.1(2022.9.20): Some of more Kanjis
Ver. 3.1(2022.10.2~7): Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 3.2(2022.10.20~22): Added some of more kanjis
Ver. 3.21(2022.10.30): Added 8 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.3(2022.11.4):Added 10 glyphs of Latin and 6 glyphs of Hanguls
Ver. 3.4(2022.11.10):Added 21 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.22):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.24):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.42(2022.11.25):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.43(2022.12.17):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.5(2022.12.10):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.51(2022.12.21):Added 5 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.6(2023.03.13):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Added so far of unified Kanji(Chinese) counts:Total of 293 glyphs
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1. Completing JIS 1 level of Kanjis
2. Completing JIS 2 level of Kanjis
3. Completing JIS 3 level of Kanjis
4. Making 2,351 glyphs of Hanguls(10/2351)
5. Adding extended Latin glyphs up to 'Latin extended additional'
6. Completing basic Arabic blocks
7. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese'
8. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'BIG 5 Common Character Set'
9. Completing KS X 1001 symbols
10. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Table of General Standard Chinise Character'
11. Completing 'Russian cylliric' block
12. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Xim Sans' (Total of 17912 glyphs)
Font from the ingame marquee display of Barcade Brawl, a 2015 game by yours truly. This was made to look similar to the system fonts from old arcade boards, PC microsystems, etc. You've probably seen the fonts I'm talking about; they're everywhere and many people refer to them singularly as "the arcade font" or "the NES font".
This is 7x7 with no wasted matrix, but it looks better without monospacing since not every glyph is the same width. It also makes a decent terminal & chat font, at least for those who don't care about the case of the messages they read and write.
Feel free to use this in your games, etc.!
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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)
A vaguely Courierlike OSD (Onscreen Display) font which tries its best to be casual. The name is inspired by the old computer joke: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?"
No filters or faux-beziers, just stock bricks and a bit of stacking/nudging!
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More about the design:
It started as a doodle and an attempt to make a smooth, low-resolution, low-poly font, and then it became a Courierlike. I have other fonts that tried to do polygonal round shapes before this (such as Cartoon Riot) but this design is my first real success in this area.
Initially, I made the angled glyphs before the round ones. I didn't want to change the angled ones, so glyphs like C, O, and Q became a bit wider than they are tall. I'm quite fond of this, because in most designs these glyphs tend to have a tall and narrow character. I think the mildly squat look of this font makes it cuter and gives it more personality.
A lot of glyphs were altered in specific ways to look more like metal type, especially anything with diacritics which touch the letters themselves. Other glyphs were altered specifically to be interpretable at small size. I also use angled contours and actual round bricks alongside each other within the same glyphs, another technique which is geared toward style and interpretability at small size.
This font came with many new challenges and an array of new techniques had to be designed. Loops were an insurmountable challenge because of the low resolution and heavy line weight, so I drew rounded areas to suggest them. You can see it on letters like Greek γ, ζ, and ξ.
Asymmetrical alien techno stencil.
This uses some experimental techniques, of course, but I'm not sure how to concisely explain those. Let's just say that each type of line bend and line connection has a rule associated with it. These get naturally modified by the structural asymmetry the font has so that simple rules appear in many forms and variations.