Tag: truetype

A Video Game Font Collection

What do you know, I’ve made it almost a whole week without making a Youtube video the primary subject of a post! Josh Bycer’s post notwithstanding: not only did I not make the post, but the focus is a video he made himself!

The font for Atari Football. The popular “Press Start” font available in multiple places on the internet, and used in many classic arcade games from many companies, is derived from this one from Atari Inc.

Without further ado, today’s post is about a font collection made by thealmightyguru, and presented on a webpage here. Despite what the main page implies, the individual game pages do not seem to have their fonts for individual download. You’ll probably have to download the while collection, available here, for that. You won’t have to worry about long downloads though, for the whole archive is only 1.4 megabytes!

Here are some examples:

The Intellivision system font is very distinctive. It was used in many Intellivision games, because it was stored on a ROM chip in the console.
This font comes from arcade Golden Axe. It’s reminiscent of several Sega arcade games from that time.
This one’s from Exidy’s arcade game Circus. Before Atari’s font was copied by everyone, many arcade games used utilitarian fonts like this one.

One of Doom’s fonts. It was shown off on the creator’s Bluesky feed.

TrueType Unicode versions of the Amiga System Fonts

Strictly speaking they’re not from a game, but the Amiga was regarded as a gaming computer, so you may be interested in these modern-OS compatible versions of the Amiga system font Topaz, with extra characters done in the style of the originals! They’re made by “Screwtapello” on Mastodon!

Amiga Topaz Unicode Nerd Font (gitlab.com)

Pixelfont

Pixelfont is a neat web tool that will take an image you provide, laid out in the proper format (which you have some control over, like character width and height) and will turn it into a pixel TrueType font for you to use! The gamedev applications of this should be obvious.

This isn’t the first free online font-building tool of this nature. The classic in the field is Fontstruct, which can also produce pixels that aren’t square, and can even extend outside of their cells, but also shows ads (although unobtrusive ones) and doesn’t let you import an image. Still, both are rather of use, or at least are fun to play with!

Pixelfont – Fontstruct