roguelike font

[Aardappel]

this font may be useful for roguelikes: http://strlen.com/square

[AgingMinotaur]

Nice one, actually. But from just looking at the examples on your page, I think the ` sign looks a bit odd …

As always,
Minotauros

[george]

Agreed, that does look nice. I think it'd be rather odd if you had to print large sections of text in it without lowercase letters, but probably for 95% of RL needs it's perfect.

The funny thing is, I think the all-caps looks better in the short sections of text, at least in the Brogue example.

[guest509]

This is fantastic. Thank you. I've not spent a ton of time on it, but I've looked for good square fonts off and on. I don't make 'text' games as much as I use tiles with text graphics, so this is exactly what I need.

EDIT: To be clear, square fonts are not too hard to find, but a font that makes an effort to fill the space is not as common.

[Z]

I have added this font to the next version of NotEye. Is the following attribution okay?

Square is a TTF font intended for roguelike games, by Wouter van Oortmerssen,
under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US )

Downloaded from http://strlen.com/square

Typical roguelikes use 80x25 display, which looks like a narrow strip with a square font. (NotEye could draw something below this strip, though...)

[Aardappel]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone!

AgingMinotaur: Yes, it's probably an odd design. There are some other characters that I am not totally happy with, like the 2 and 5 look a bit odd, and the Q might look ugly at high res. Maybe at some point I'll do a second pass. Feel free to mention what other improvements you think are needed, or start hacking on it yourself

Z: any attribution is welcome, thanks!

Let me know about games that use it, I can mention it on the page.