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izak1399

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Dwarf Fortress Font
« on: June 09, 2012, 12:32:55 am »


Hey guys. First time poster, short time fan (so far, only played 10 years in dwarf time, on my third Fortress atm.)
Not sure where the most appropriate place to post this is, but, I went and made the Dwarf fortress vanilla tileset into a font.
You can go download it here.

Thought any other designers out there or fan artists would enjoy having this to work with. It's such a pain having to use alternative fonts that never quite match up. If you're a font whore like me, you know what I mean.
If you were interested I used BitFontMaker2 to make it.

Anyways, if you liked it and used it on your stuff totally show me! Even if I didn't design the font myself, its still nice to see my two afternoons work didn't go to waste. Ha ha.

Edit 10/6/12 the alternate bearded dwarf icon and the filled regular dwarf icon are added in now. I don't know why they weren't in the last version.
« Last Edit: June 10, 2012, 06:14:25 am by izak1399 »
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2012, 09:39:04 am »

just posting to say: cool :)
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2012, 07:09:46 pm »

just posting to say: cool :)

Thanks. =D
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2012, 08:14:05 pm »

This will likely come in handy. Cheers!
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2012, 06:16:58 am »

This will likely come in handy. Cheers!

No problems man! There's a new version up now with the other 2 filled dwarf icons.
If you're just gonna be using the text though then it probably won't matter at all. Ha ha.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 09:57:32 pm »

If anyone does anything I'd really like to see it.

A sweet illustration of a dwarf baby by Becky Hunt.

Found this floating around on G+. Even the rabbits are blood thirsty killers.

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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 10:00:02 pm »

I love you.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2012, 10:04:05 pm »

I love you.
Aw shucks, don't tell my girlfriend. XD
You should totally use it in your Fall of Lelumtelon art series!  ;)
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 08:17:27 am »

You know, I think I will. :D

Is the unmined gem symbol in this? I can't seem to find it.
 EDIT: Oh, wait. Latin Small Letter U With Grave. Of course!
EDIT EDIT: Next one is up, using this font.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2012, 09:26:25 pm »

You know, I think I will. :D

Is the unmined gem symbol in this? I can't seem to find it.
 EDIT: Oh, wait. Latin Small Letter U With Grave. Of course!
EDIT EDIT: Next one is up, using this font.

Yeah the symbols are a bit of a shambles in there. Lol.
It looks awesome on your comic though! I especially like the "Is now a swordsdwarf, is now a recruit" behind the warriors.
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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2012, 10:02:05 pm »

This is pretty neat, and a hell of a first post. Huzzah!

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Re: Dwarf Fortress Font
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2012, 10:14:45 pm »

This is pretty neat, and a hell of a first post. Huzzah!

Ha, cheers. A post I'll undoubtedly never be able to top. Ha ha ha haaaa *cries.*
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