#pixel fonts

Itch.io is intended first and foremost as an indie game market, including a lot of assets people can buy or download for free for their games. However, there's also a lot of more general resources on there now, especially ones under licenses like CC0 that allow you to use for anything, so here's a mini masterlist of stuff I found while browsing!

Cursors:

Cursors pack 03

Mouse Cursor Pack

Fonts:

Crayon Libre Font - CC0

16+ Free Pixel Fonts

Pixuf - Tiny Pixel Font (CC0)

Quaver

Collection of 20 Public Domain Pixel Fonts

Graphics:

Splat Pack: "Different types of splats for use as textures, stickers and more."

Really, just check out Kenney's entire profile. They create tons of awesome assets (some of these packs are over 1000 images!), and they're under CC0, expressly noting you can use these for any project.

16x16 Bronze Age Icons (70 in total)

8x8 Universal Icon Pack

300 Organized Frames For Any Project - See their profile, too, they've got TONS of stuff (textures, tiling backgrounds, 3D isometric assets etc)

64 Free Emojis

32 Animated Tiny Emotes

1400 16x16 RPG Pixel Icons

Windows Pop-Up Maker 2.0 - This tool makes it easy to make fake Windows pop-ups!

1 Bit Fantasy Creatures

101 stylized fantasy items (border and no border)

Rachel's CC0 Assets

Hexany's Roguelike Tiles (CC0)

Free Pixel Art Flower Pack

72 16x16 RPG Items

Simple Dungeon Crawler 16x16 Pack

Free 16x16 Weapon Icons - More similar sets on their profile!

Mini FX, Items & UI

Bit Bonanza: "a 10x10 asset pack with various fantasy items and entities. This pack contains everything from food and weapons, to snakes and floating eyeballs."

Other:

Aesprite: A pixel art making app. It's popular, and for a good reason. Tons of cool features. Some of the blinkie and pixel makers I follow use this! ($29.99)

Index & Art Simple Gallery Template for Neocities

It honestly really frustrates me that most "free pixels"/"free favicons" people post are just stolen artwork from someone's DeviantArt or something, so my suggestion is: Why not use assets from these packs instead? Most of them are under CC0/Public Domain, and it's easy to recolor them to whatever you need.

A collection of my favorite Pixel and Pixel imitation fonts, since, in my experience, these are the hardest fonts to find and pin down. All free, in one way or another. A printable version of this poster is below.

Both images are yours to do with as you wish.

It’s still available for free!

Let me just preface this by saying: I really like making fonts. There’s something fascinating about taking a symbol that has a universally-agreed-upon meaning and figuring out how to transform it in a way that keeps its basic structure recognizably intact while still giving it a unique personal touch and ensuring that it aesthetically fits into the greater context of whatever it’s being used for.

So, to that end: This is the default font used in Morlequariat. It’s used for most in-game UI elements, all narration, and almost all dialogue. All of the text in the game is stored on disk as ASCII, and so this font page corresponds to the printable range of ASCII (codepoints 0x20 to 0x7F). However, many of the punctuation symbols included in ASCII were not useful to me, so I replaced them with things that—at least to me—made some sense. The substitutions I made are as follows:

Games, get your games! This week we’ve got a beautiful pixel adventure, a comedy take on one of 2016′s most interesting cyberpunk worlds, and some fonts that would look great in your next game or project. Check out this week’s recommendations here.