[NFG]

I've created a new thing:

A fantabulous, fantastic font machine! It'll allow you to create phrases in 60 (and counting) font styles, ripped from your favourite arcade games. Here's a sample of the fonts available so far:



As far as first-time PHP projects go, I think this was a totall success.
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[sawtooth]

Burglar X and Alien Vs Predator and a few others are broken (at least for me). Yeah, this is neat!
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[CubaLibre]

This is why I read Selectbutton.
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[glossolalia]

sweet
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[thatbox]

Very cool! Front-page material, I'd say.

[Ronk]

this is rad!
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[sawtooth]

This is also a good reminder of why I got into graphic design—i got my start in typography just doodling up pixel fonts. It's fascinating how much variation you can build into a 16 x 16 grid.

From a purely traditional formal standpoint, most of these are pretty bad, wracked with the usual inconsistencies you'd find in any monospaced typeface (massive letterspacing between I or l and other characters, squashed ms, stretched ns). Some of them even lack a consistent baseline or x-height, pushing gs and ys up so they fit into the rigid blocks they're supposed to. If they were traditional print or vector typefaces, they'd look like a mess.

But the tight grid they're in basically forces consonance and connections between them (all caps are more accommodating, like in Afterburner and Dangerous Seed). The overall effect is pleasing ("playful" at worst), and taking a look at Dangerous Seed the effect is really impressive, using variable thickness of the stems and strokes to fill in overlarge counters and letterspacing.


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[vision]

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[Greng]

I wish I saw this before I made my sig ava combo but I guess I'm happy with them regardless.

That's an excellent tool, yes some fonts seem to need tweaking from playing around at 3x size. Man this is far more convenient than chopping pixels in photoshop.
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[dark steve]

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[dessgeega]

i've been using this to make banners for my fucking taito week posts

it's rad and a half

cameltry is probably my favorite arcade font, though there's been a truetype version of it forever
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[Greng]

I've always liked the treasure font but the dodonpachi ones my favourite from that selection (from playing with it for 3 minutes that is).
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[NFG]

[NFG]

Added four new fonts: Gaiapolis, Gradius 3, Gunbuster and Monster Mauler. They've been added to the sampler image in the first post.
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[Chuplayer]

Very, very cool.
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"Hotaru is just freaky like that. Just look at the select screen. She's between Dong and Butt." - Goh_Billy

[DonMarco]

Awesome awesome awesome

I should go back and finish learning php. The textbooks were only 600 pages thick, how hard could it be?
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"Toups, can I ask you? Do you think love can bloom even in the Forum Axe?"

[Martial Loh]

This is awesome! Thanks dude

[sawtooth]

[NFG]

I just love what you've done with the WANTED poster there.

For my money, SDI looks much more like a wood-cut font than Dragon Saber:






etc.

I like your theory about the font inspiration, it changes the way I look at a lot of these.

BTW, added and today while at work. Shhh...
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[Flackon]

This will be very useful. Thank you.
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[NFG]

Work progresses on the font engine, over 70 fonts available now.

I've also put together a handy guide to ripping your own fonts, which you may wish to peruse.
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[vision]

This is a pleasure to witness.

[wasted potential]

Ooooh, love the Dangerous Seed one.
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[This Machine Kills Fascis]

As much as I also like to obsess over controllers, this is your greatest accomplishment NFG.
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Select Button
The fuckery has so many layers that I can't tell who knows what's going on and who's just an idiot.

[Adilegian]

I'm now going to edit lines of poetry into still images from Street Fighter II.
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[kael]

[Felix]

Don't ask for the context of this, but accept my thanks.

[Adilegian]

Aaaand my favorite:


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[CubaLibre]

Glory
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[Adilegian]

[NFG]

Added a bunch of new fonts since we last talked:

Asterix
Batsugun
Don Doko Don
Gain Ground
Dimahoo
Ghosts n Goblins
Ghouls n Ghosts
Final Star Force
Battle Bakraid
Aurail
Klax
Wonder Boy
Final Star Force

and a few more... New ones at the bottom of the list:


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[Bo 0]

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

[kerobaros]

[NFG]

Yeah, I'm releasing the code shortly. It'd have been done last week except that I got a bluescreen while halfway through posting it. =/

EDIT: done! Here's the official release. It uses the brand new Creative Commons Zero license.

Please enjoy.
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[NFG]

3 new fonts added, as well as a link to some nifty True/OpenType game fonts.
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[Adilegian]

One thousand pardons, please, if this is a dumb question, but:

Is there any way that this little gem can run from an offline application? I can use it on the web just fine, but this strikes me as the kind of thing I'd like to have as part of my computer.
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[kirkjerk]

Also: could we make it so there's a "sample" page (like the list of all the fonts you've posted here) so you can click on the font you want, and it "seeds" the Form? (Or if you had deep CSS mojo, make the select list show the font in question...)
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[NFG]

[kael]

[kirkjerk]