Solar Jetman font

Archive entry by Ste Pickford on Mon, 17 Aug 2009
Subject: Solar Jetman

Here's another 8-bit, bitmap font, from the late 1980s, from our NES game Solar Jetman.

This is a plain but functional 8x8 pixel font. Like most NES fonts, there were no lower case characters, and punctuation was kept to an absolute minimum as we generally had to fit all characters for the front end (all menus, title and non-game screens) into a set of 256 characters.

We treated ourselves to a duplicate set of 8x16 pixel numbers though, to make the control panel look nice in-game.

This font was cheekily re-used on the 8-bit home computer game Gazza 2 that John wrote.

Tags: font, pixel art

Follow up post: Plok font #1

Predecessor post: Font - Fleapit

View the softography page for Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship »

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Is there a truetype font out there?

Comment by Highway Man, added Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:41:29 GMT

I've never made one.

Comment by Ste Pickford, added Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:17:15 GMT

Ah, okay. Looks like a cool font - Thanks for the reply!

Comment by Highway Man, added Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:12:50 GMT