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

Show threadeishiyaApr 19, 2022

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 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.net
@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.
Dec 26, 2022 at 10:01pmWeb
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.