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“The Video Arcade Game Font - Solid” by Goatmeal

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:12:15 +0000

Clone of The Video Arcade Game Font. The ubiquitous video game font standard, used since 1977 ("Dominos" by Atari) until well into the 1990s. Used by most video arcade game companies, including (but not limited to): Namco, Williams Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally-Midway, Taito, Nintendo and Sega. The lower case characters are from several Atari video arcade games from 1984-1987. Plenty of alternate characters -- variations used in conjunction with the standard font, all selected from a variety of MAME32 game roms.

“Planned Standard Filled” by thieves

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:19:43 +0000

I reconsidered Planned Standard and made it fit into itself a little better. Works well with the closest leading possible.

“The Video Arcade Game Font” by Goatmeal

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:22:59 +0000

The ubiquitous video game font standard, used since 1977 ("Dominos" by Atari) until well into the 1990s. Used by most video arcade game companies, including (but not limited to): Namco, Williams Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally-Midway, Taito, Nintendo and Sega. The lower case characters are from several Atari video arcade games from 1984-1987. Plenty of alternate characters -- variations used in conjunction with the standard font, all selected from a variety of MAME32 game roms.

“Orientish” by Linxan

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:14 +0000

Designed to be evocative of East Asian text, especially Chinese and Japanese characters. Includes full upper and lower cases as well as a full set of standard punctuation.

“fs tributary” by thalamic

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:49:50 +0000

This was an exercise in trying to extract as standard a serif typeface as possible out of the FontStructor. The 't' is the token quirk. Oh and there's an introbang in here too. :)

“Five Minute Hair Colour” by LexKominek

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:07:31 +0000

A standard-looking Grecian design. Works equally well at small and large sizes. I may add more punctuation and numbers later on if I feel like it, but probably not.

“Modern Box” by Jox

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:55:38 +0000

A square letters collection. Made without spaces, so every word must have a capital letter in the beginning. Added some most used non-standard characters.

“Braille (Basic) Alternate” by SquarePeg

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:51:51 +0000

Clone of Braille (Basic). I swapped the hollow circles for small dots. Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic) Alternate.

“International Morse Code (Stacked)” by SquarePeg

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:42:04 +0000

The original Morse code was created for Samuel F.B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, but spread to radio communications (and beyond) beginning in the 1890s. (It is now known as American Morse code, and rarely used.) International Morse code was created by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848, and standardized at the International Telegraphy congress (Paris) in 1865. Other current Morse Code FontStructions have encountered word- and letter-spacing issues, and I tried to work around this by stacking the dots and dashes vertically. The result reminds me a bit of Mayan numerals, but hey, as long as it still reads as Morse... I wonder what the ITU would say about this? One thing's for sure... it saves a lot of horizontal space. In each character, the dots and dashes read from top to bottom rather than from left to right. Punctuation has the longest series of dots and dashes in International Morse Code (six), so this number determined my cap height. :-) The shorter characters all hang from this imaginary line. Missing characters: Please note that the !, & and $ symbols are not defined within the ITU recommendations for International Morse code, so they are not part of this typeface. On the other hand, the @ symbol was approved for use in 2004, so I've also included the underscore sign I found at two different online sources. (The underscore symbol has not been formally approved by the ITU, but it could come in handy if you have to transmit an e-mail address using Morse code!) Other characters: As with my two Braille FontStructions, the uppercase and lowercase versions of each character are the same. Also, the opening and closing parentheses share the same symbol, which will also show up if you type brackets instead of parentheses. Last but not least, there are a very few diacritics included (the ones I was able to verify).

“Braille (Basic)” by SquarePeg

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:18:56 +0000

The Braille system was developed by Louis Braille in 1821. Mew Wins' Morse Code Alphabet (International) inspired me to make a Braille FontStruction. I have only drawn the basic, or Grade 1, version of the Braille alphabet here. (There is a contracted version of Braille, known as Grade 2, and another version which uses an 8 dot grid. In addition, there are special Braille characters for accented letters, but they are not all standardized, so for now I have stayed away from them.) Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic).