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[ChevyRay]

Alright, I'm working on finished a Flash engine that I want to go open-source with once I get all (when I find them) bugs out of it. Think Flixel, but with a lot more support classes and a bit differently structured, and I'll have stuff like pre-made platformer, overhead/etc. engines that people can use to code with and stuff.

While it has font support, I want to have a pixel-font system as well, in which you can use your own BMP tiles as fonts, because making font-files is bothersome and a lot of people hate Flash's font/text system (I'm not particularly fond of it). When I release the engine, I want to have it come with a bunch of pixelated fonts as well. so people can use them, use them as bases, or even just use the built-in text support without having to make a font for it first.

I thought it'd be cool to just have a bunch of fonts made by indies from around TIG, so if you've got any pixellated fonts you've made for games or whatever and don't mind sharing it around, or if you want to make one that'll be in the engine post it here! Feel free to give it a name (cool, creative names are encouraged), and I'll title it with the name and creator when I release the engine. Oh, and give us the tile size too.

Plus, pixel fonts are cool! I'll link to them from here as you post them so people can browse through them all.

ChevyRay:


ZeuglinRush:


nooks:

Pietepiet:


Letsap:



FONT LAYOUT

Layout
If possible, arrange your bitmap font according to the ASCII order of characters. You can start with any particular character (usually #32, the SPACE [" "] character) and after that every character should be the next character as ordered by that list. If there are characters you want to skip, leave a blank space for them in the tileset.

Format
Please send them in either PNG or BMP format, as tiles with no spaces between tiles. They'll be considered "fixed width" fonts for now, but I'm going to add dynamic-width support as well, if your font is designed to look that way. I'll take care of placement for that, though, so don't worry about it. Transparency and or alpha-antialiasing is fine, but not necessary.

Special Characters
Any characters that don't appear on that Ascii table that you want to use, such as smile emotes, hearts, arrows, or whatever (fun or useful stuff) is fine, too. Just place them after character #127 [DEL] on the bitmap, and I'll worry about standardizing them according to what's common and stuff and fixing up the fonts so they're all arranged properly.

Peace!




PS: feel free to just post your pixel fonts here, too, even if you don't want me to share them with the engine. Just make sure to mention that you don't want it used when you post it.

[Afinostux]

I made a 4x4 font. Dunno about readability, since I haven't really used it in anything yet:

looks a bit like one of those 2d barcodes at this size.

[Zaratustra]

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/zaratustra_bigital

If you like anything else in http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructors/zaratustra/fontstructions, feel free to use it.

[ChevyRay]

Are these BMP fonts? I can't figure out how to download them...

EDIT: Holy, tiny font ZR! Nice, though, I'll put it in the engine

[.Vic]

8x9px button effect font

7x8px, inspired by Links Awakening

5x6px, with lowercase characters

6x7px, made for a NES mockup

12x6px, kinda unfinished

too lazy to think of names

Do they need to be in a specific layout or something? Dunno if they are actually usable right now.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

a subpixel font created over here: http://www.typophile.com/node/61920



for those who don't know, subpixel relies on colors -- there's actually no black in the image above, zoom in to prove it to yourself

[Jolli]

i like the button effect font @noojs

[ChevyRay]

// pure awesomeness

Do they need to be in a specific layout or something? Dunno if they are actually usable right now.

Aw thanks man, you're a saint!

Oh shoot, I can't believe I didn't mention that they should be in Ascii order. I can arrange them if they don't work. Basically tiles, counting from left-to-right and top-to-bottom. They can all be on one row, or in multiple rows, whatever works.

Thanks for that one, Paul! Subpixel is awesome. Amazingly readable for being so tiny.

[Pietepiet]

http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html

This will come in handy. You can directly edit pixelfonts there and save them as a .ttf

Made this one with it a while ago, called Supertiny. 3x3 font:

Example:


Font file here:
http://pietepiet.legendofjelda.com/random/supertiny.ttf

[EDIT] I was lazy and don't have a bmp

[ChevyRay]

http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html

This will come in handy. You can directly edit pixelfonts there and save them as a .ttf

Yeah mang, but if only I didn't need them as Bitmaps

  <3 lovin that wee font! We need a 2x2 font now, and a 1x1 one as well.


EDIT: that is a really cool tool, though!

[Zaratustra]

If you don't know how to take a screenshot of a font to make a bitmap out of it, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to make this engine.

[Pietepiet]

If you don't know how to take a screenshot of a font to make a bitmap out of it, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to make this engine.

Wow, what's up your ass?

[Elk]

If you don't know how to take a screenshot of a font to make a bitmap out of it, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to make this engine.

I think this post lacks a huge amount of originality.

[Renton]

If you don't know how to take a screenshot of a font to make a bitmap out of it, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to make this engine.

Wow, what's up your ass?

I'm guessing

[Jared C]

8x9px button effect font

Lovely font.    Would you mind terribly if I used it for something...?

[ChevyRay]

If you don't know how to take a screenshot of a font to make a bitmap out of it, I'm beginning to doubt your ability to make this engine.

Yeah I was just bein jokin at Pietepiet because he's my good buddy and I knew he wouldn't take it seriously

And it actually is a lot of meticulous work to arrange the fonts on a bitmap when they're not done right; for example, nooks' tiles are lovely, but the the characters aren't placed evenly about in the first one, so I have to actually take each letter on his tileset, put it on a fixed grid, arrange all like 80 or so of them in ASCII order, and then save it again. It's not that big of a deal, but my wrist is sore from working and drawing on the computer so much, so any clickity work I can be spared is nice.

That being explained, I am quite capable of making this engine, which I have already finished, and is quite impressively fast and manageable if I do say so myself. It's being made not only for my use, but for the benefit of other people who have trouble getting started making Flash games as well, which I thought would be a pretty nice thing to do. Why any talents I may have are up for jibing investigation, I don't know.

So, sorry if I said something wrong. I actually really liked the look of the font you posted, and after some searching I think I just have to register to the site to download it, so I was just wondering if you have a bitmap handy is all (all the letters aren't viewable all at once on that little viewer thing, and it's scaled up so much).

Thanks for stickin' up for me guys, but let's not take it any further than this. Just post more lovely pixel fonts

[letsap]

It's missing some particular characters since I use them for text command stuff like speeding up or slowing down, but if you like the font I can fill it out again! And if not, I'm looking for ways to improve it, too.

[ChevyRay]

Thanks Letsap, it's a nice font. Not particularly font of the shadow (maybe if it was darker, so it didn't produce that weird double-image effect), but it's nice and readable.

14x14 right? Or is there spacing between the letters? I like to crop them down as much as possible, because it makes a huge difference in the amount of pixel information is being copied when I do this in flash.

I'm gonna do another font today too, now that I got letter-by-letter printing and alignment working today yaay.

[letsap]

Yup, it's 14x14. Darker shadows does kinda make sense. Thanks!

[.Vic]

8x9px button effect font

Lovely font.    Would you mind terribly if I used it for something...?

Not at all , go ahead and have fun with it 


Just wondering, this is how you need them to be arranged, right?