Monthly Archives: March 2015

Dancetech

Today’s font update is the long-overdue completion of Dancetech, a font which started as a paid commission that got cancelled out from under me last year. I finally decided to wrap it up and make it available in the science-fiction fonts section.

album_dancetechDancetech
Dancetech is a simple, lightly-chiseled face commonly found on ‘dance mix’ and ‘beat mix’ albums of the late 1990s to early 2000s and presents a simple, bold face perfect for headings with a light science-fiction feel. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, euro. Includes regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic weights.
album_razorclawRazorclaw
Razorclaw is based on the logo of the new “Beast Hunters” Transformers line. Includes extended characters, euro, and punctuation. The ‘at’ sign has been replaced with the Predacon faction symbol. Includes regular and hollow versions.
album_whittleWhittle
Whittle is a simple, sharp, heavy font based on the lettering used on pundit Bill Whittle’s “Afterburner” segments. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, Euro. Includes italic and condensed versions.

Video Game Font Updates

album_pacmaniaPacmania
This famous typeface is based on the original logos of the Pac-Man franchise from Namco Inc. Includes full alphabet, euro, extended punctuation. Includes regular and italic faces.
album_hyperspaceHyperspace
Based on the original Atari vector font from Battlezone, Asteroids, and several other classic games. All caps font, includes accent characters, punctuation, and Euro. Includes bold and italic versions.
album_joystickJoystick
This retro-styled typeface is based on the lettering used from Sears’ Tele-Games cartridges (rebranded Atari 2600 games). Includes full alphabet, extended characters, euro. Includes bold and italic versions.

More Art-Deco

Today’s update is just continuing filling up the missing holes in the Art-Deco archive. Each font here is minorly updated (adding a few symbols, moving up to opentype, etc.) Downloads can be found as Trial options in the Art-Deco page!

album_carltonCarlton
A tall, ornate art-deco font based on those commonly found on marquees and advertising bills of the pulp era. Includes bold and italic versions.
album_crichtonCrichton
This retro-style font is actually based on the title logo from the “Farscape” television series. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, Euro. The “dollar sign” has been replaced with the large “swoosh” from the television logo. Includes bold and italic versions.
album_geddesGeddes
This art-deco font is based loosely on the classic ‘futuristic-looking’ typefaces of the late 1950s and early 1960s, though a bit cleaner and more suitable for print. Includes full alphabet, numerals, extended characters, euro. Includes regular, bold, italic, and condensed versions.

Art-Deco

You know, I admit, I’m running out of ways to say “Here’s a list of updates and fonts that I updated today”… so.. erm… here’s a list of updates and fonts that I updated today…

  • Art Deco Fonts now have trial selection available
  • Pixel Fonts now returned to ‘free download’ status
  • Alien Glyph Fonts now returned to ‘free download’ status
album_callie-maeCallie-Mae
This is a simple, rounded art-deco found based on those found in pulp-era “romantic movie” marquees. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, euro. Includes italic, bold, and bold-italic versions.
album_chapleauChapleau
A retro-style font based on marquee lettering and pulp covers of the 1920s. Includes accent characters, full alphabet, and Euro symbol. Includes bold and italic versions.
album_majelMajel
This later-period bit of art-deco is actually inspired by some of the title lettering of Franz Joseph’s “Star Trek: Blueprints” and “Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual”. Includes full alphabet, numerals, extended punctuation, euro. Includes bold and italic versions.

Transformers Fonts, Again

Today’s update features maintenance updates to three popular Transformers-themed fonts along with numerous minor changes to the site itself. Most notably I’ve been adding ‘trial prices’ (IE, free) to fonts to allow them to be downloaded before purchasing a commercial license. More updates will be coming!

  • System update (again) and database cleanup (again)
  • License Agreement page now on site
  • Western Fonts now have trial selection available
  • Pulp Fonts now have trial selection available
  • Miltary/Stencil Fonts now have trial selection available
album_blitzwingBlitzwing
Blitzwing is a simple, military-style font based loosely on the packaging of Hasbro’s Contruct-A-Bots line. Includes full alphabet, numerals, extended punctuation and Euro. Includes bold, italic, and bold-italic styles, along with expanded weights.
album_kreonKreon
Kreon is a thick, decorative typeface that is based on the logo of Hasbro Inc’s “Kre-O” building-brick line. Includes full alphabet, Euro, and accent symbols. Includes regular, italic, condensed, and condensed italic versions.
album_hellpointHellpoint
This science-fiction font is based on some of the plate markings founds in IDW’s “Transformers” comic series. Includes full alphabet, extended character set, Euro. Left and right braces replaced with Autobot and Decepticon insignia, respectively. Bar replaced with Predacon insignia.

Gaming Dice

Today’s update is a little bit of cleanup again, thanks to leaving dice all over the place…

album_dpoly_imperialdPoly Imperial
This download includes the dPoly Imperial font, a new version of the popular dPoly Hexagon font which is designed specifically for fans of the Star Wars and similar series of role-playing games. The font includes “Aurebesh” style six-sided die in white and black, fate symbols, blank d12 and d8 symbols, and numerous Imperial and Republic symbols to make gaming in the galaxy a bit easier.
album_steampipsSteampips
This download includes the dPoly Steampips font, a new version of the popular dPoly fonts now designed specifically for fans of the Steampunk genre. Steampips d6 includes gear-pip-style and Steamwreck-style six-sided die in white and black. It also includes FATE symbols for fans of that game system. Steampips d10 includes gear-pip-style dice, Steamwreck 00-90, and Steamwreck 0-9 dice in white and black.
album_dpoly_block_dicedPoly Block Dice
This download includes the dPoly Block Dice font, a new version of the popular dPoly Hexagon font which is designed specifically for fans of bloody fantasy football and similar games. The font includes pip-style and Gutcruncher-style six-sided die in white and black. It also includes fumble, block, both bock, and critical symbols in white or black.
album_dpolydPoly
DPoly is a collection of ‘game dings’ fonts family based on the common dice in role-playing games. Includes Four-Sider, Six-Sider, Eight-Sider, Ten-Sider, Twelve-Sider, and Twenty-Sider types. Each font has ‘white’ and ‘black’ versions of the dice and numerous additions.

Now includes symbols from the FATE system (and replaces the separate dPoly Fate font.)

Transformers Fonts

Today’s update is a trio of overdue updates for my various science-fiction fonts, all related to Transformers! Each can be found on the science-fiction fonts page.

album_dai-atlasDai-Atlas
Dai-Atlas is a science-fiction themed, lcd-like font is based on the original Transformers logo from Hasbro, except thinner and leaner for each of reading. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, and Euro. Includes italic and bold versions.
album_fractylFractyl
This decorative typeface used for the Predacons’ speaking bubbles in the BotCon “Ground Zero” comic in 1997. Includes full alphabet, extended characters, and Euro. Includes bold and italic versions.
album_mechalockMechalock
This simple-stylistic typeface is based on the “Combiners” subline logo from Hasbro’s “Robots in Disguise” Transformers series. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, and Euro. Includes italic version.

Alien Glyph Fonts

Today’s update is a cleanup of the Alien Glyph section, wrapping up the last of the fonts which need updating to the new database format.

album_tiroleseTirolese
Tirolese is an alien-glyph font based on the writing found in display readouts of the Robotech Masters as seen in Harmony Gold’s “Robotech II: The Sentinels”. Includes all canon glyphs.
album_cybertron_opcodeCybertron Opcode
Cybertron Opcode is a stylized version of Jim Sorensen’s “Optical Code” from the Transformers: Allspark Almanac. Includes all canon characters and also includes an extended punctuation and character set.
album_green_martianGreen Martian
Green Martian is an alien-glyph typeface based on the ‘alien’ writing (usually Martian) found within DC comics over the years. Includes most common glyph mappings and accepted characters.
album_visitor_scriptVisitor Script
Visitor Script is an alien typeface based on the alien writing seen in the various incarnations of the “V” franchise. Includes all canonical glyphs.

Western Fonts II

For the most part, today’s update is an attempt to fill the last of the maintenance holes in the Western Fonts archive. I’m also going to take the opportunity to get some fixes and updates into the overall site itself while I’m at it…

  • All main tables now sort alphabetically
  • Alien Glyphs page added, sorted under Science Fiction Fonts
  • Fantasy Scripts and Glyphs page added, sorted under Fantasy Fonts
  • Art-Deco Fonts now display correctly
album_roughknightRoughknight
Roughknight is a western-style typeface based on Sony’s “Wild Arms 5” video game title logo. Includes full alphabet and extended punctuation, Euro.
album_tonopahTonopah
Tonopah is about as basic as Western-themed fonts get. Simple, straight, and boxy, with very heavy serifs. Includes numerals, punctuation, accent characters, and Euro. Includes Hollow, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic versions.
album_winslettWinslett
Winslett is a decorative ‘old-west’ style font with thin letters and heavily-thickened serifs and accents. Includes full alphabet, accent characters, and Euro. Includes ‘hollow’ version.

Quantum

This is a quick font update, well overdue. Just getting it out of the way while I had some free time!

album_quantumQuantum
Quantum is a simple, ‘classic-sans’ typeface that is based on the title credits of the James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace”. Includes full alphabet, extended punctuation, Euro. Includes regular and italic versions.