Post by merwok in Pixel Font - COMPASS comments

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hello! do you have a font with a similar vibe but 8x8 max?

You could try Passage: it has a cap height of 7px! But mind: if you need to support non-English characters, 8x8 won't be enough.

EDIT: considering descenders, Passage won't fit an 8x8 grid without a few tweaks.

https://somepx.itch.io/pixel-font-passage

merwok75 days ago (1 edit)

thanks for the recommendation – I already got passage!

the size is a hard constraint for pico-8 fonts :) I am used to cheating with descenders (like moving the character 1px up and deleting 1px from the descender), and for accents there’s a trick too (use a control code to overlay a separate ^/etc character on top)

somepx75 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Eheh, I figured it would be for a Pico-8 project. I did a few free versions of my designs for it.

You could try adapting Yolk too, it's free (and even tinier than Passage!):

https://somepx.itch.io/free-font-yolk