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This is a collection of bitmap fonts in Bitmap Font Writer format (supported in Grafx2 image editor, SFont library, etc.)
Several new fonts were added, and the designs for a few are revised.
Important note: while some of these fonts were inspired by those used in known video games and home computer systems, these are not, and are not supposed to be, complete recreations of these. Some, in fact, deviate quite greatly. (There's enough of full clones available on the net already.) They shouldn't cause problems with the copyright, either -- especially as bitmap fonts do not seem to be covered by the copyright in the U.S., Japan as well as most of the world (with the exception of the U.K, where they are protected for 25 years.).
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These are amazing, still I would like to have larger ones as well (to serve as titles).
Great set!, thanks for sharing.
I love the Artos sans and Saikyo sans. Excellent designs.
Some of the likenesses are actually striking. Did you really pixel them from scratch in blind spirit from nothing but a 8x8 canvas?
I personally would use them (I love 8x8), but then i'd be accused of stealing fonts from old games. I'm a fan of the games the fonts pay tribute to, but it's also potential 'dfsg-bait' to similarity.
As said in the post itself, bitmap fonts aren't considered copyrightable in most of the world. In fact, a lot of companies in the early 1980s seemed to reuse the same font with no problem.
Regarding the fonts themselves -- while I did refer to some of the originals when working on a few letters (e.g. Saikyo Serif's M/W), most are created from scratch. The lowercase especially, as (mostly) they tended to look bad.
Seriously, though -- most of them are really "generic". There isn't a lot of ways you can draw a font of such little size. Artos Serif, for example, is mostly Courier, and a bolder version of it is likely to look like Saikyo Serif.
So, to summarize, these fonts are (mostly) original, and are unlikely to cause any copyright problems.
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Super Useful!
Definitely a good study for various styles.