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This seems like a bit of a hodgepodge; I'm not sure all these character sets were supported back in the DOS days and some of the character, like the runic ones,
by pimlottc 2y ago
This seems like a bit of a hodgepodge; I'm not sure all these character sets were supported back in the DOS days and some of the character, like the runic ones, seem too big. It would be nice to know where these are all sourced from.
EDIT: without the extra letter spacing added in the character samples, you can see how some of the wider characters run into their neighbors:
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- Leynos 2y agoI wondered if the runes were taken from an Ultima game, but they don't match those in screenshots of Ultima V nor VI.
- pimlottc 2y agoYeah, I played a lot of Ultima back in the day and I don’t recognize those. Doesn’t match Ultima III, for sure.
- pimlottc 2y agoUltima III sample: https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Runic_Alphabet?file=U5_00_22.png https://ultima.fandom.com/wiki/Runic_Alphabet?file=U5_00_22....
- conradolandia 2y agoIt's elder futhark, younger futhark and anglo-frisian runes. They are part of the Unicode spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_(Unicode_block)
- pimlottc 2y agoI think the question is more where the specific pixelated glyphs for the runes were taken from.
- deejayy 2y agoThere were multiple sources I used, first started with dosbox, checked all codepages' ascii chart, made a screenshot, went thru all characters. Then I found int10h, crosschecked a few to not miss anything. Some glyphs are result of just the combination of letters and mods (accented characters mostly). Then I found a pixel font which has about 40k glyphs as I remember, so I checked which can be derived from it in the style of the original VGA font.
- pimlottc 2y agoThanks, you should put this info on the page!