Recreation of the pixel font from Jasdan Joerges/Firebird Software's "Kinetik" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Timothy Closs/Firebird Software's "I, Ball" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64.

In the Amstrad and Spectrum versions, the "O" and "Q" are awkwardly shifted left by one pixel. On the C64, these letters are correctly centered, and the "Z" is slightly more interesting. This recreation uses the C64 versions of these letters.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Lucasfilm Games/Tiertex's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters used in the game have been included.

Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Remote Programming/Bulldog Software's "Galletron" (1987) - weirdly spelled "Gallitron" on the Amstrad start screen, but not the loading screen.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of one of the pixel fonts from Remote Programming/Bulldog Software's "Galletron" (1987) - weirdly spelled "Gallitron" on the Amstrad start screen, but not the loading screen.

Note that in the Spectrum version, the numeral "0" is shifted right by 1 pixel compared to the Amstrad version. In this recreation, I opted for the latter for a balanced look.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Paragon Programming/Datasoft/U.S. Gold's "Black Magic" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Prism Leisure Corporation's "Metaplex" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC.

The same font was used on the ZX Spectrum, but with a different "Y".

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Patrick Montier/France Image Logiciel's "Firescape" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.

Note the shaded block/cursor, mapped to "light shade" (U+2591).

Only the characters used in the game have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Infogrames' "La Geste D'Artillac" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the main pixel font from Gremlin Interactive's "Death Wish 3" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and Commodore C64.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Steve Marsden/David Cooke/Hewson Consultants' "Technician Ted" (aka "The Chip Factory: Featuring Technician Ted", 1984) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Note the inclusion of the "high voltage sign" (U+26A1).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Hewson Consultants' "City Slicker" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Ste and John Pickford/Binary Design/Mastertronic Added Dimension's "Zub" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Kuma Computers' "Buster Block" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Gremlin Interactive's "HeroQuest" (1991) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Note that some of the icons have been mapped to the closest unicode equivalent: the sword to "Crossed Swords" (U+2694), the bag of gold to "Money Bag" (U+1F4B0), shield to "Shield" (U+1F6E1), and the ... acorn-looking icon used to indicate the amount of movement points to "Footprints" (U+1F463) - in that last case, going by meaning rather than appearance.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Dinamic Software's "Phantomas 2" (aka "Vampire", 1986) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Firebird Software's "Mega Bucks" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Electric Dreams Software/Irem's "R-Type" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

This font has a few subtle differences compared to the arcade version.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Irem/U.S. Gold's "Kung-Fu Master" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Bubble Bus Software's "The Fifth Quadrant" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters used in the game have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Dro Soft/Mastertronic's "El Cid" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Paco Menéndez/Juan Delcán/Opera Soft's "La Abadía del Crimen" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

The font has been extended to include the "W", which was missing from the original. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Magnetic Fields/Gremlin Graphics' "Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge" (1990) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Note the flag icon, mapped to "chequered flag" (U+1F3C1).

This recreation tweaks the broken ">" and "}" of the original. Apart from that, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Clive Brooker/Mastertronic's "One Man and His Droid" (1985) on the Amstrad CPC.

Very similar to the ZX Spectrum version, but with slight tweaks to the "D", "X", "Y", "&", and fewer punctuation/special characters.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Ubisoft's "Sphaira: Le Royaume des Atlantes" (1989) on the Amstrad CPC.

The font includes arrows ("upwards arrow" U+2191, "downwards arrow"  U+2193, "upwards arrow with tip leftwards" U+21B0, "upwards arrow with tip rightwards" U+21B1), and oddly a handful of lowercase greek characters

This recreation has been slightly extended to include more lowercase accented characters. Apart from those, only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Tony Warriner/TAG Computer Games/Codemasters' "Death Stalker" (1988) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Mike Singleton/Consult Computer Systems/Melbourne House's "Throne of Fire" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

The font is identical on both systems, except for the arrows, square brackets, and slashes which are unique to the Amstrad, and the additional "inset" box drawing characters that only appear on the Spectrum.

The single-line border box with the "looped" corners is mapped to "box drawings heavy..." unicode characters (U+2501, U+2503, U+250F, U+2513, U+2517, U+251C), and the (Spectrum-only) "inset" box drawing characters are mapped to "box drawings double..." (U+2550, U+2551, U+2554, U+2557, U+255A, U+255D).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Martech's "Catch 23" (1987) on the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Chris Sawyer/Ariolasoft's "Sepulcri" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the pixel font from Phil Coombs/Artic Computing's "Tut's Pyramid" (1986) on the Amstrad CPC.

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the small pixel font from CRL Group's "Blade Runner" (1985).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.

Recreation of the main pixel font from CRL Group's "Blade Runner" (1985).

Only the characters present in the game's tile set have been included.