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Title: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on March 05, 2009
I got some inspiration today and did a complete set of 256 ascii and extended ascii characters.

Free to use but please provide credit since it was a grueling 4 hours in Ms Paint. ;)

Some of the letters were very hard to fit in 8x8. Might be fun for maybe a very low res demo. They are currently monospace, however with some coding you could find the widths and use it like a normal font. They key to this set is the included border characters wich make it possible to construct crude boxes and such. Might be for for a ascii demo where you need some shapes drawn.
The file has a transparent background channel so it may be hard to see on the forum.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: benny! on March 05, 2009
That's pretty cool. Have some K++. Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: zawran on March 05, 2009
Nice of you to share this. Especially the border characters are great for those old school rpg games :)
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Rbz on March 05, 2009
It would be nice for a small intro
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Shockwave on March 05, 2009
Good work :)

These little fonts are always useful.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on March 06, 2009
*cough*

(http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4332/gamea.png)
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Shockwave on March 06, 2009
You've given me a great idea.

More about that in a few weeks. :)
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: zawran on March 06, 2009
Quote
*cough*

Looks interesting, I have always wanted to make a RPG game, but everytime I begin, something else comes along and distracts me. A RPG game requires a bit of commitment to complete, but it will probably always be one of those things that I wish to make.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: benny! on March 06, 2009
You've given me a great idea.

More about that in a few weeks. :)

Hmm .. don't know what you thought - I thought of a textmode game ;-)
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on March 09, 2009
Here is a small revision.

I noticed some letters had odd serifs and some letters were just ugly, especially the lowercase "p".
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Shockwave on March 10, 2009
K+ for your dedication.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on March 14, 2009
Another fix. This time I noticed that some characters had extra thickness (! " ' and ?") also I made "/" match "\ " . The width of "0" was inconsistent wth the numbers so I expanded it a bit.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: zawran on April 17, 2009
Where is the right-arrow?
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on April 17, 2009
Doesn't look like there is one

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.plcdev.com/files/plcdev/images/Simple%2520Extended%2520ASCII%2520Table.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.plcdev.com/ascii_chart&h=334&w=826&sz=10&tbnid=qSsHqgtMXlH6nM::&tbnh=58&tbnw=144&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dextended%2Bascii%2Bchart&hl=en&usg=__e2dgXBhZ0vtJWTJFbgwCdVIRi4o=&ei=--joSZixDZC6tgPPgtXhAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: zawran on April 18, 2009
Looks like you are right about that, which is a bit strange I think. Why would they not have included a right arrow when they have the others, makes no sense to me.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on April 18, 2009
If you need directional indicators you can always use the carrots.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: zawran on April 18, 2009
I will probably just use the empty space at 26, but I was just wondering why it wasn't there.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: OPLx on April 26, 2014
Are these fonts still available anywhere?  None of the links seem to work.  Thanks!
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: Rbz on April 27, 2014
Are these fonts still available anywhere?  None of the links seem to work.  Thanks!
Sorry for that, it seems we loose some attachments here, we are working on it.
Anyway, you can send a personal message to the author -Pixel Outlaw-, and maybe he can upload this file again.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: ttemper on April 28, 2014
@Oplx...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7278175/bitmap_fonts/bitmap_fonts.rar
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7278175/bitmap_fonts/bitmap_fonts_2.zip

and the ones I made...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7278175/bitmap_fonts/bitmap_fonts-ttemper.rar

Feel free to use as you please. :)

*edit, not 8x8, but useful none the less.
Title: Re: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use.
Post by: OPLx on April 28, 2014
Thanks guys for the information and those font files (I've seen them in some demos before)!  Though they're not 8x8, I can at least use them for testing purposes.  ;D