This project is meant as a love letter to the typography of classic arcade games. It contains a growing collection of bitmap fonts that were hand-drawn with Toshi Omagari's magnificent book Arcade Game Typography as reference. These fonts have been made with Panic's Playdate in mind, but it's unclear whether they can be used as regular *.fnt files.
Checklist
- all fonts are 8x8 pixels, in most cases with a padding of 1px
- all fonts only cover basic latin characters
- most fonts have a limited character range (
[0-9A-Z]), rarely including lowercase characters - complex fonts with colors have been excluded, some have been added as outlined or filled variants
- typographic quality was no criteria for inclusion (and there are many bad fonts!)
- PNG previews
I'm currently not interested in contributions of new fonts. However, if you come across mistakes you are welcome to post an issue or even a pull request.
Todo
- add more fonts
- better filter options on website
- option to handle missing characters in details view
All included fonts are licensed under a Public Domain license. The website and all code in this repository is licensed under The MIT License.
