A downloadable asset pack

A BITMAP FONT FOR LOCALIZATIONS

  • PNG containing 1968  glyphs at 6x8 pixels per glyph
  • implements the following unicode ranges:
    • Basic Latin
    • Latin-1 Supplement
    • Latin Extended-A
    • Latin Extended-B
    • IPA Extensions
    • Spacing Modifier Letters
    • Greek and Coptic
    • Cyrillic
    • Hebrew
    • General Punctuation
    • Superscripts and Subscripts
    • Currency Symbols
    • Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
    • Letterlike Symbols
    • Mathematical Operators
    • Box Drawing
    • Block Elements
    • Geometric Shapes
  • easily adressed programmatically, without a lookup table, only one jump condition required 

This is an ongoing project that may be expanded to more than the ranges on first release. Sadly, some of the ranges cannot be feasibly included in the font, since 6x8 pixels do not allow for the most complex glyphs. 

I'm currently trying to implement Arabic but it's difficult, since the glyphs of the script are very horizontal. Cyrillic Supplemental will follow. Japanese scripts could maybe follow but it's nigh-impossible to make Kanji at 6x8, a little research says you need at least 9px for those to be legible.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons License 

  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

You can use this font both in free and in commercial projects. If you use it and publish something, I'd be glad to hear about it, to have a look at what other people maybe create with it. 

For attribution you can e.g. link to my twitter or here.

StatusIn development
CategoryAssets
Rating
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Tags8-Bit, ascii, Fonts, Pixel Art, Retro, Roguelike, unicode

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Great font! Is there any chance of a ttf or otf version? Or a way I could convert it? That would be very useful! Setting up a bitmap font for my current project is sadly quite problematic :(

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This is very cool.  I've got a massive upcoming project, and I'm considering using this.  I'll let you know (of course) but I just wanted to stop by and say how slick this is!