Pixel Font Blowout: Part 2
Another Monday, another detox ward to break out of so I can make it back to the office by 9:00 am. Here’s some more bitmap fonts to strain your already bloodshot eyes:
04 is a Japanese foundry with about a dozen free pixel fonts on their site. One of my favorites is the easy-to-remember 04B-25. Not to mention 04B-03!
Fonts for Flash has some nice offerings, although I’m not entirely clear on the connection between bitmap fonts and Flash. Check out FFF Neostandard and FFF Harmony.
Miffies is another Japanese foundry with almost 50 free bitmap fonts, almost all of them video game related. Most of their fonts are meant to be used at much higher point settings than 8-12pt fonts on most of the other sites you’ll find. That means they can have some fun with fonts like Spinball. LostPet is also worth a download.
Still more pixel fonts to come, as if you needed any more!
4 Comments
Shane / March 7, 2005 @ 10:59 am
The reason that there is a connection between pixel fonts and flash is that flash does funky alias-ing to fonts that are small. Pixel fonts are a nice way to use very small text w/o losing too much.
John / March 7, 2005 @ 12:11 pm
Just remember when using pixel fonts in Flash to keep the textfield, or movieclip, graphic X,Y coordinates on a whole number - no decimals. X:34.0 Y:100.0 == good… X:34.1 Y:100.5 == no good.
Also - FlashMX2004 - Flash7 player supports setting textFields to aliased. Flash6 and earlier could only do anti-aliased text, which is why pixel fonts were needed.
Lainie / March 8, 2005 @ 6:19 am
great blog, was just looking for fonts so thanks :D
Jeton / March 9, 2005 @ 4:33 am
04 is great. Plus the design is rocking.
Hey , this place is turning into my daily visit :)
I have you on my Bloglines ;)
P.S. i sent you an e-mail with a suggestion about a pixel font site.
I’m presuming it will be inlcuded in part 3.
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