I like a lot of what’s happening in the FF drop shadow but the colors/contrast are all wrong and some letters like ‘m’ and ‘w’ get real muddy. I don’t find the original font all that attractive, to be honest; the white on blue gives it a stripped-raw look.
Reminds me of implementing this vector font rendering and blowing out the parameters:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf (by the way there’s a Unity plugin of this)
kirby’s adventure (the ability help font) has hella personality, look at that “g” and “y.” really good for establishing tone
pokemon gen 1 has too many thin lines and 45-degree angles. not great
the Multiboot Menu is probably as close as you can get to a mr saturn font at that size
i’m trying to decide which of the fonts that include lower case letters is the “best” (specifically for rpg menus and dialogue windows) and i guess it comes down to how much stylization i want to go for. mother 1’s looks really oddly kerned in-game, but Willow is a little too on-the-nose-fantasy. the IBM PC font is solid but i don’t want people having mental associations with PC BIOS
i-is the real answer here Big Bird’s Hide and Speak
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i’m going to make a sesame street rpg
Secret of Mana had a really nice monospace font but a really ugly dialogue window :s
progress? maybe?
i thought stealth bubble letters were a neat idea at the time but a palette swap might honestly be more appropriate. also not sure how i feel about how hacker-y this came out.
(unfortunately i dont think our text in G-dungeon qualifies ;_; )
Oh good, this page still exists:
http://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/
holy shit that’s a phenomenal library
