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These look absolutely delightful! A quick question: I'm working on retro consoles, and so I need fonts where each glyph is a multiple of 8px wide for easy displ

These look absolutely delightful! A quick question: I'm working on retro consoles, and so I need fonts where each glyph is a multiple of 8px wide for easy display on tile-based backgrounds. Are the sizes (in pixels) of your font packs listed anywhere?

Vecr 2y ago
16. Or an integer multiple of that like 32 or 64. It's in the Step 5: Exporting section Edit: that's the height, the width is not fixed/I think it varies with the exact font and the kerning. It's probably too big for you anyways.
bryanlarsen 2y ago
The example tile sheet in the article appears to be 8 pixels wide by my count. Count the width in pixels on the "m" and if it's 7 the font will likely work for you.
- Vecr 2y ago
  The main issue is you can't have them literally touching or it'll be really hard to read. Maybe it would work, but most of these "pixel art" fonts really benefit from some faking enabled by running on what's actually a high resolution display.
  - bryanlarsen 2y ago
    That's why I said the "m" should only be 7 bits wide for an 8 bit wide font.
    - damieng 2y ago
      It's a trade-off. Have every single instance of m look squished vs it might touch another m or w somewhere else and look odd. I've done fonts in both categories.
kelnos 2y ago
> each glyph is a multiple of 8px wide These look to be variable-width fonts. I believe the heights are multiples of 16, but the width will vary by character.
- bryanlarsen 2y ago
  It appears that the "tile sheet" export puts the fonts on a fixed width grid, so that can be used for a fixed width font. They look left-justified in the grid though, and fixed width fonts usually have the glyphs centered in their grid. That could be fixed with some scripting.
- two_handfuls 2y ago
  They are variable-width yes but there is also a monospace variation, those will be constant width.
jacksonrya 2y ago
Check out The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/). Each font description includes glyph dimensions and aspect ratios
damieng 2y ago
My own collection of free 8x8 fonts might suit your needs at https://damieng.com/zx-origins https://damieng.com/zx-origins Looking forward to trying this exciting rust tool in my chain as well to see what additional formats I can include. (Update: Seems the PIFO tool is not open-source :( I guess I'll stick to using scripts + FontLab Studio 5)
frenchie14 2y ago
I also took a look and couldn't find any info. If you want to take a leap of faith, once you buy the assets there's metadata files including individual glyph sizes and kerning info so you could find all the ones that fit your project

Vecr 2y ago

16. Or an integer multiple of that like 32 or 64. It's in the Step 5: Exporting section Edit: that's the height, the width is not fixed/I think it varies with the exact font and the kerning. It's probably too big for you anyways.

bryanlarsen 2y ago

The example tile sheet in the article appears to be 8 pixels wide by my count. Count the width in pixels on the "m" and if it's 7 the font will likely work for you.

Vecr 2y ago
The main issue is you can't have them literally touching or it'll be really hard to read. Maybe it would work, but most of these "pixel art" fonts really benefit from some faking enabled by running on what's actually a high resolution display.
- bryanlarsen 2y ago
  That's why I said the "m" should only be 7 bits wide for an 8 bit wide font.
  - damieng 2y ago
    It's a trade-off. Have every single instance of m look squished vs it might touch another m or w somewhere else and look odd. I've done fonts in both categories.

kelnos 2y ago

> each glyph is a multiple of 8px wide These look to be variable-width fonts. I believe the heights are multiples of 16, but the width will vary by character.

bryanlarsen 2y ago
It appears that the "tile sheet" export puts the fonts on a fixed width grid, so that can be used for a fixed width font. They look left-justified in the grid though, and fixed width fonts usually have the glyphs centered in their grid. That could be fixed with some scripting.
two_handfuls 2y ago
They are variable-width yes but there is also a monospace variation, those will be constant width.

jacksonrya 2y ago

Check out The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/). Each font description includes glyph dimensions and aspect ratios

damieng 2y ago

My own collection of free 8x8 fonts might suit your needs at https://damieng.com/zx-origins https://damieng.com/zx-origins Looking forward to trying this exciting rust tool in my chain as well to see what additional formats I can include. (Update: Seems the PIFO tool is not open-source :( I guess I'll stick to using scripts + FontLab Studio 5)

frenchie14 2y ago

I also took a look and couldn't find any info. If you want to take a leap of faith, once you buy the assets there's metadata files including individual glyph sizes and kerning info so you could find all the ones that fit your project