Author Topic: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale  (Read 4599 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Zera

  • LV8 Addict (Next: 1000)
  • ********
  • Posts: 737
  • Rating: +82/-7
  • Monochrome Artisan
    • View Profile
Dissatisfied with the usual font styles available, I thought I would try to create something more suitable for grayscale RPGs. I tried to be as close to the detail found in classic Final Fantasy games as possible. Menu borders and a finger-pointer are also included.

In order, the characters are:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV
WXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
wxyz . {il} {li} {ll} {multiplier} , " {."} ' ! ? % {..} -{-} / ( ) ;

1234567890

In the fourth row, there are quite a few special characters. There are a few lower-case letter combinations so you can make sections of dialog reserve less character space, and appear more variable-width. There's also a period-quotation combo, for shorter punctuation at the end of sentences contained in quotations. Finally, there are characters to make ellipses and em-dashes short.

Feel free to use, modify or redistribute as you see fit.
« Last Edit: July 06, 2010, 01:39:08 pm by Zera »

Offline DJ Omnimaga

  • Clacualters are teh gr33t
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV15 Omnimagician (Next: --)
  • *
  • Posts: 55943
  • Rating: +3154/-232
  • CodeWalrus founder & retired Omnimaga founder
    • View Profile
    • Dream of Omnimaga Music
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2010, 04:23:06 pm »
Darn, pretty sweet! Those would fit pretty well in a calc game. They're easy to read too it seems.

Offline ztrumpet

  • The Rarely Active One
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV13 Extreme Addict (Next: 9001)
  • *
  • Posts: 5712
  • Rating: +364/-4
  • If you see this, send me a PM. Just for fun.
    • View Profile
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2010, 04:24:44 pm »
Those are really nice!  Awesome job!  I hope I'll have a chance to use these sometime. :)

Offline Magic Banana

  • LV6 Super Member (Next: 500)
  • ******
  • Posts: 371
  • Rating: +77/-1
  • It's not an apple, it's a ... magic banana.
    • View Profile
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2010, 04:51:12 pm »
Pretty nice. I like the extra symbols that help with spacing.

Good detail for the pointer considering it's size too. :)
I do sprites and stuff, so yeah.

Quote from: yunhua98
i'M NOT SURE WHAT A SWORD SKILL IS BUT HERE'S THE SWORD ANIMATION FROM THE TWO SPRITES ON PG 13

Offline DJ Omnimaga

  • Clacualters are teh gr33t
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV15 Omnimagician (Next: --)
  • *
  • Posts: 55943
  • Rating: +3154/-232
  • CodeWalrus founder & retired Omnimaga founder
    • View Profile
    • Dream of Omnimaga Music
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2010, 02:03:12 pm »
I have made a slightly modified version of the above for people who wants FF fonts and windows that are darker. I had to change the borders a lot, though.

Offline Zera

  • LV8 Addict (Next: 1000)
  • ********
  • Posts: 737
  • Rating: +82/-7
  • Monochrome Artisan
    • View Profile
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2010, 07:54:23 pm »
The darker version looks nice. I didn't think to make one like that.

Offline DJ Omnimaga

  • Clacualters are teh gr33t
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV15 Omnimagician (Next: --)
  • *
  • Posts: 55943
  • Rating: +3154/-232
  • CodeWalrus founder & retired Omnimaga founder
    • View Profile
    • Dream of Omnimaga Music
Re: Final Fantasy font and border style / 4x8 px 4-level grayscale
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 01:46:39 am »
Thanks ^^

I wanted to have something closer to the FF1 through FF4 :D