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

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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
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.
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@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.
Dec 26, 2022 at 9:18pmWeb