Author Topic: NEW free 8x8 (256 characters) font for use. (Read 16259 times)

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.

benny! · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2009 »

That's pretty cool. Have some K++. Thanks a lot!

zawran · « **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2009 »

Nice of you to share this. Especially the border characters are great for those old school rpg games

Rbz · « **Reply #3 on:** March 05, 2009 »

It would be nice for a small intro

Shockwave · « **Reply #4 on:** March 05, 2009 »

Good work

These little fonts are always useful.

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2009 »

*cough*

Shockwave · « **Reply #6 on:** March 06, 2009 »

You've given me a great idea.

More about that in a few weeks.

zawran · « **Reply #7 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.

benny! · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2009 »

Quote from: Shockwave 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 ;-)

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #9 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".

Shockwave · « **Reply #10 on:** March 10, 2009 »

K+ for your dedication.

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #11 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.

zawran · « **Reply #12 on:** April 17, 2009 »

Where is the right-arrow?

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #13 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

zawran · « **Reply #14 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.

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #15 on:** April 18, 2009 »

If you need directional indicators you can always use the carrots.

zawran · « **Reply #16 on:** April 18, 2009 »

I will probably just use the empty space at 26, but I was just wondering why it wasn't there.

OPLx · « **Reply #17 on:** April 26, 2014 »

Are these fonts still available anywhere? None of the links seem to work. Thanks!

Rbz · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2014 »

Quote from: OPLx on April 26, 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.

ttemper · « **Reply #19 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.