Pixel Fonts 2

What it does for your game

Translations stop breaking your font: Every font has real lowercase and 176 characters with Western European accents, covering 12 languages from English and French to Icelandic.
Every screen, its own font: A serif for dialogue boxes, a tiny HUD font for stats, a bold arcade score and a chunky rounded title with its block shadow.
12 fonts, TTF and BMFont: 5 designs with outline layers that line up exactly, BMFont sheets at 1x, 2x and 3x, and every TTF checked pixel for pixel.

12 pixel fonts for games from 5 new original designs, every one with real lowercase and Western European accents (176 characters), as TrueType files and as bitmap fonts (PNG + BMFont .fnt). A serif for dialogue, a condensed font for long lines, a tiny HUD font, a bold monospaced arcade font and a chunky rounded title font. Each has an outline layer that lines up exactly; the two title fonts also have a block-shadow layer.

Licence in one line: use and embed the fonts in your commercial games; do not resell the font files.

The fonts

Gridwright Story (native size 13 px, capitals 8 px): a serif text font for dialogue, books and menus. Fonts: Regular, Outline.
Gridwright Narrow (native size 13 px, capitals 8 px): a condensed text font, most letters 3 px wide: long lines in small boxes. Fonts: Regular, Outline.
Gridwright Micro (native size 11 px, capitals 6 px): a tiny HUD font with real lowercase, most letters 3 px wide. Fonts: Regular, Outline.
Gridwright Arcade (native size 12 px, capitals 7 px): a bold monospaced score and title font, 7x7 letters in 8 px cells. Fonts: Regular, Outline, Shadow.
Gridwright Round (native size 16 px, capitals 10 px): a chunky rounded title font with 2 px strokes. Fonts: Regular, Outline, Shadow.

That is 5 hand-placed designs and 7 layer fonts made from them by code. Nothing is repeated from Gridwright Pixel Fonts (pack 1): that pack has a 5x7 family and a 3x5 capitals font with ASCII only.

176 characters in every font

ASCII 32-126, the 62 accented letters of Latin-1 (À to ÿ, with Æ Ð Ø Þ ß), Œ œ Ÿ, ¡ ¿ « » ° ·, € £ and the typographic ‘ ’ “ ” – — … •. That covers English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic. Not included: Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Cyrillic, Greek.

Made to drop in

TTF files for any engine or tool. Crisp at the native size and its whole multiples; the native size of every font is in the README, in fonts.json and in the file name of its bitmap font.
Bitmap fonts: a PNG sheet and an AngelCode BMFont .fnt per font, at 1x, 2x and 3x.
Layers that line up: an Outline or Shadow font has exactly the spacing and line metrics of its base font. Draw the layer first and the regular font on top at the same position. The build draws every pair with FreeType and stops on any overlap or gap.
Tested: every character of every TTF was rendered at 1x and 2x, smoothing off and on, and compared pixel for pixel with the bitmaps. The glyph outlines are single clean shapes, so there are no seams.
A monospaced font: in Gridwright Arcade every character is 8 px wide, accented letters included.
characters.txt has all 176 characters in one line, to paste into a font-atlas box (for example Custom Characters in Unity TextMeshPro). fonts.json lists sizes and metrics. The README explains how to keep text sharp.

Licence

Need Polish, Turkish or Cyrillic? Leave a comment: the pack gets updates.