Early PC video cards featured a familiar serif 8x8 font.
Over the years different manufactures tweaked a few glyphs (ATI), made a serif version (Amstrad), or just plain stylized parts (AMI & Phoenix BIOS) all of which gave a slightly off-brand feel.
Here's a new font that celebrates those differences by embracing these odd quirks for a very not-quite-in-Kansas PC feel.
The 1920's art deco movement has inspired a lot of design and plenty of typography to go with it. Personally having already published SIX such 8x8 typefaces I wasn't sure I could do something new...
Matinee however takes that art deco, keeps it bold and contrasted and yet softens some hard edges to keep it friendly and comes with a small caps variant.
The Atari ST used the GEM "Graphical Environment Manager" for its desktop UI and this cute little 6x6 font deviated from the usual GEM one to provide something that felt compact but without too much compromise.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are a fantastical comedic romp through a crazy world of heroes, villains and improbable but familiar situations.
The 1995 graphical adventure loosely follows the "Guards, Guards!" book and adorns the game with gorgeous art and voice acting and a small pixel font for us to admire.
Uni9 is another GEOS font this time attempting to reproduce the incredible Universe font in a mere 9 point size. It's a very nice adaptation and the fixed-width renderer here doesn't quite do the font justice (note the trimming of g and y to squeeze it in to 8 pixels).
Revue, created by Colin Brignall in 1968, could be found everywhere in the 70s & 80s. Gamers might recognize it from the title screen and livery of the 1987 arcade classic After Burner from SEGA.
Here's a brand new attempt to squeeze that distinctive face, complete with lower-case, into an 8x8 grid and the outcome is quite successful I think.
When I saw a remake of Manic Miner called Manic Person under development on the Spectrum Computing forums I thought a custom font would polish off the look.
Alas the game didn't have 768 bytes left to fit it in so here it is up for adoption in both tall and short styles.