eishiyaApr 18, 2022

Decided late last night I should make a pixel font that resembles Latin Textura manuscripts, scribal abbreviations and all.

Coming up with rules in the font to automatically use the abbreviations was pretty fun. Making vector versions of all the letters was not.

#FontForge #PixelArt

efimsiskinNov 25, 2022
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I finished the font! You can download it on OpenGameArt for use in your own projects:

https://opengameart.org/content/pixtura12-medieval-pixel-font

In addition to just looking cool (because Textura is always cool), it can optionally (and if your art program supports it) automatically apply a bunch of abbreviations and variants to make Latin text look more authentic.

#pixelArt #fontForge #font

Pixtura12 Medieval Pixel Font

A 12px pixel art font based on late medieval manuscripts.

OpenGameArt.org
Apr 19, 2022 at 4:40amWeb
Show threadeishiyaApr 19, 2022

Added a Condensed version too :> The space between vertical strokes within each letter is 1px in this one instead of 2px. It's easier to read in some cases, and harder in others.

For a manuscript look, mix both, based on how much you need to fit on a given line. This would've been very helpful when I was putting together the fancy example image last night ._.

Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountNov 5, 2022
@eishiya Fabulous! To my inexperienced eye it looks like Jung's Red Book
Show threadeishiyaNov 5, 2022
@tartley I'd not heard of this before! Seems like Jung had a lot of time on his hands 🤣
This book seems to be calligraphed in Fraktur, which is a descendant style from Textura, and one which was widely used in the German-speaking world until well into the 20th century.
Show threadJonathan Hartley's old accountNov 5, 2022

@eishiya That's really interesting to hear, thank you!

The Red Book is Jung's opus. After his break with Freud he suffered something of a mental breakdown, and entered a fifteen year retreat, in a tower by Lake Geneva, where he took advantage of his newly more... malleable state to chart the structures of the unconscious via the mechanism of his dreams, and the Red Book is his documentation of the results.

Show threadRoel NieskensDec 1, 2022

@eishiya Oh hey this looks so cool!! The latin lorum ipsummy text is hard to read, but in English it read surprisingly well.

Now for a game with this! 😍

Show threadTuulaApr 19, 2022
@eishiya this looks really cool! Now I wish I had a project where I could use it.
Show threadHerrTheesApr 19, 2022
@eishiya Great work, thank you!
Show threadFink Apr 19, 2022
@eishiya I think @bleeptrack might enjoy this
Show threadswordsie swordingtonApr 19, 2022
@eishiya illud font magna pulchrum est, gratias tibi ago !
Show threadSpeak softly love 🇱🇰Apr 19, 2022
@eishiya That's gorgeous!
Show threadV, The Dragon Witch 🌙Apr 19, 2022
@eishiya holy carp this is such a stunning font! I need to think of a reason to use it ...
Show threadeishiyaApr 19, 2022
@vicorva I can't take the credit for the design, I only took prettiness developed by medieval scribes and made it tiny :'D
Show threadV, The Dragon Witch 🌙Apr 19, 2022
@eishiya and did a brilliant job of it!
Show threadSnapshot photographerApr 19, 2022
@eishiya
Very cool, thank you 🙏👍🏻!
Show threadMastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorApr 19, 2022
@eishiya This is amazing :D :D
Show threadMaddie  Apr 19, 2022
@eishiya finally, i can say "cock n balls" but fancy
Show threadOlm-e ☮️Apr 19, 2022

@eishiya hi ! very cool, it's actually a good addition to "Lord of the Test" game/mod in #Minetest
I used a size of 18 when on a full HD screen but the pixelated effect remains somehow (at 12 it's too small, 24 too big for my taste )

(I had to change the minetest.conf file, don't know how in a mod, but 'it works'(tm) ;p )

probably pixtura12 can be of use in #godotengine projects too

Show threadeishiyaApr 19, 2022

@Olm_e I'm surprised it holds up at 150%! it does seem a nice fit though.

Looking around, there seems to be a font called Stgotic Textura, which aims for a similar look but at around an 18px size, perhaps that could be worth a look for you!

Show threadcrabApr 19, 2022
@eishiya This looks great, and I'm always a fan of ligature abuse
Show threadrixxApr 19, 2022

@eishiya

a) I love everything about this, great work!

b) I had to giggle at your example of "fjord" as a ligature word in this context <3

Show threadeishiyaApr 19, 2022
@rixx It was the first word I thought of with "fj" in it. There are separate fi and fj ligatures xP
Show threadSeverákApr 22, 2022
@eishiya this is real work of art
Show threadHyperlink Your HeartApr 23, 2022
@eishiya Gorgeous! Adding to my collection for if I ever make a game that it would suit!
Show threadTopaz, Gem CoyoteApr 26, 2022
@eishiya Oh wow, this is cool as heck! So wait, that's /vector/ pixels, not a bitmap font?
Show threadeishiyaApr 26, 2022
@topaz It's both! It contains a bitmap, but since many programs these days don't support bitmap fonts, it also contains a blocky vector outline. If you use the correct size (12px) and disable antialiasing, it gives the same look as the bitmap.
Show threadDoublure StyloApr 27, 2022
@eishiya This is awesome ! I practice calligraphy and I like pixel art and the idea of mixing both of them is still somewhere in my head. Thank you for making this idea concrete. It is very beautiful !
Show threadNaurisOct 29, 2022
@eishiya woah, that's an awesome font, very stylish
Show threadluddite 🇵🇸 computerOct 29, 2022
@eishiya this is gorgeous!!
Show threadLyonsOct 30, 2022
@eishiya wow it's gorgeous!
Show threadipofanesOct 30, 2022
@eishiya @fiee
Show thread→ @[email protected]Oct 30, 2022
@eishiya cc @welshpixie
Show threadCalligrafaeOct 30, 2022
@rnd @eishiya I follow them :D
Show threadDavid JONESOct 30, 2022
@eishiya I love it. Thank you!
Show threadRay - MeganeHavenNov 6, 2022
@eishiya this font is so so SO pretty omg!! would love to use it in some artwork sometime...! very nice job (:
Show threadeishiyaNov 6, 2022
@MeganeHaven Thank you! I hope you'll get to use it in something :D
Show threadjikan207XNov 17, 2022
@eishiya this is so elegant... <3
Show threadsomepxDec 26, 2022
@eishiya gorgeous!!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 26, 2022
@eishiya beautiful!
Show threadCodepoints.netDec 26, 2022
@eishiya this is phantastic! Thank you for sharing!
Show threadeishiyaDec 26, 2022
@codepoints Thanks! Sadly, not all the glyphs in this font are standard Unicode characters xP
Show threadCodepoints.netDec 26, 2022
@eishiya I’ve got no problem with that 😇 Actually, given the use cases for the font, I also quite like the idea of ligature control with “@”s.
Show threadeishiyaDec 26, 2022
@codepoints Hah, thanks! I try to always include @ as a printing character, but it just made no sense for this font and didn't look good at all, so I figured I'd just use it as an easy-to-type invisible character. I did include a bunch of other anachronistic punctuation though.
Show threadhalcy​ Dec 26, 2022
@eishiya whoa, that’s gorgeous
Show threadMoon Baron Dec 26, 2022
@eishiya I feel like @copypaste would love this
Show threadpoetasterDec 26, 2022
@eishiya really lovely, thanks for sharing!
Show threadevilstevieDec 26, 2022
@eishiya wow
Show threadKetzirah LesserDec 26, 2022
@eishiya that’s stunning!
Show threadKlaus SteinDec 26, 2022
@eishiya This very much reminds me of very old point'n'click adventures with medieval settings (or Indiana Jones) :-)
Nice :-)
Show threadSteffan ZieglerDec 26, 2022
@eishiya as someone married to an ink person, I love the way you’ve captured the look of letters made with a “shading” ink.
Show threadeishiyaDec 26, 2022
@saint_monkey Thanks! It was pretty simple: select all the text, shrink the selection by 1px so that all that remains are the parts larger than 2x2 pixels, then expand that by 1px, and darken all the parts of the text within the resulting selection. There were some manual tweaks after that to make it less repetitive, but the selection thing gets most of the way there.
Show threadJamesTDGDec 26, 2022
@eishiya reminds me a bit of runic, but on steroids
Show threadDarksecondDec 26, 2022
@eishiya This is excellent! Thank you so much for making this :D
Show threadjminorDec 26, 2022
@eishiya very nice!
Show threadWade McGillisDec 26, 2022
@eishiya @0xabad1dea neat
Show threadPaul WilliamsDec 26, 2022
@eishiya that would look amazing as a cross stitch project. Hmmm….
Show thread𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪Dec 27, 2022
That’s gorgeous
Show threadTileadDec 31, 2022
@eishiya this makes me so happy.