Pixtura12 Medieval Pixel Font
This is a 12px pixel art font that resembles textura/textualis writing from late medieval manuscripts and early printed books. Includes a Regular and a Condensed version.
In its basic form, it makes for flavourful fantasy/medieval headings and in-game documents.
When combined with software that can make use of advanced OpenType features, such as Photoshop, this font can automatically use long s and apply a variety of medieval scribal abbreviations to text, quickly making your ominous Latin spellbooks look way more authentic. Most of these abbreviations only make sense for Latin text, so leave this feature off if you're writing in other languages. If you find the font uses ligatures and abbreviations where you don't want them, stick a @ in there - the character is invisible in this font. In programs with a glyph viewer, you can also insert the various characters manually, for even greater control. The ^ sign adds a wide overline above the previous character, so you can manually add it to suggest elided text, e.g. ip^m produces ipm with a line over the p, short for "ipsum".
A set of basic ligatures (supported by most art programs, but only some game engines) is also provided, to make words like "difficult" and "fjord" look nicer.
The first preview image is an example of what this font can do in combination with a little manual editing - faint guide lines, a hand-drawn initial, and some fiddling with the line breaks and spacing.
The condensed version has less space between vertical strokes, which lends it a more uniform appearance. For a more handwritten look, try mixing both styles. The capital letters are exactly the same in both versions.
The ZIP contains both TTF files of the font, Regular and Condensed. OGA doesn't allow uploading TTFs directly ):
The TTFs have both bitmaps and outlines. Since this is a pixel font, make sure smoothing/interpolation is turned off when rendering it, and use a font size that's a multiple of 12px.
As an alternative to CC-BY, you may licence this font under the SIL Open Font License.
Comments
Incredible! I really really like the ligatures and special characters :) Probably the prettiest pixel-y font i've ever seen.
Really nice one! Looks like written by hand and very medieval.
Very Cooll!!! -- Muito Legal!!!!!