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Pixtura12 Medieval Pixel Font

Author: 
eishiya
Monday, April 18, 2022 - 21:25
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Art Type: 
Document
Tags: 
font
Pixel Art
medieval
pixel font
License(s): 
CC-BY 4.0
Collections: 
  • Base pixel art for 3D pixelish RPG
  • MedievL Sequence
  • Pages MMORPG
  • Pool: Fonts (GDN)
  • Project Zero
  • Stuff and Things
  • Time & Tides Moodboard
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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.

Copyright/Attribution Notice: 
Pixtura12 font by eishiya
File(s): 
pixtura12.zip pixtura12.zip 14.6 Kb [876 download(s)]
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Croomfolk
joined 7 years 6 months ago
04/19/2022 - 11:51
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Incredible! I really really like the ligatures and special characters :) Probably the prettiest pixel-y font i've ever seen.

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PeterX
joined 4 years 8 months ago
04/22/2022 - 13:25

Really nice one! Looks like written by hand and very medieval.

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MendongGkewadCarlos
joined 3 years 1 month ago
05/01/2022 - 18:15

Very Cooll!!! -- Muito Legal!!!!!

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