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General Donkey Kong Discussion => General Donkey Kong Discussion => Topic started by: chungy on October 09, 2023, 02:29:54 pm

Title: Donkey Kong font
Post by: chungy on October 09, 2023, 02:29:54 pm

I wanted to use the in-game font for my stream and I didn't find anything online with it already composed, so I decided to do it myself. All the character graphics from the game are represented as-is, with some creative liberty to fill out the ASCII set.

I'm not an expert in making fonts and probably did a poor job compared to someone that is, but still, here's my take.

Git repo: https://github.com/chungy/dk-font

Title: Re: Donkey Kong font
Post by: chungy on October 09, 2023, 03:33:35 pm

I made a version 2, flipping the left quotation mark (U+2018) upside down, then I noticed the letter “G” had a pixel in it that did not belong. I deleted my v2 post, but hopefully v3 is actually the final work I'll put into this. haha.

Title: Re: Donkey Kong font
Post by: jimhappy on October 12, 2023, 07:41:38 am

THIS IS SOOO COOL!  Thanks for sharing!!!

Title: Re: Donkey Kong font
Post by: chungy on October 13, 2023, 01:07:49 am

Thanks, I appreciate it. I've just pushed a v4 with ¡, ¿, …, ©, ™ characters and a re-centered vertical pipe. The GitHub link will even show a preview among the README.