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.
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.
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 ._.
@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! 😍
eishiya
Roel Nieskens