A Super Mario World Font (ready to download & use)

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This is a font for your computer that looks like the one used in Super Mario World. That's all there is to it!

The idea of a font that uses SMW letters is nothing new: as early as 2010, there was a font called illusiyellow by someone named ssaamm (I think) that did just that. I've used it one or two handfuls of times over the years, but it's pretty basic and has quite a few inaccuracies and limitations.

A couple of weeks ago I got the silly idea to see how that font would look in a code editor (it's monospace after all), and encouraged by the reactions on Discord, I decided to make a new, improved SMW font from scratch.

By "scratch" I mean the Pixel Font Converter. It's an online tool where you can upload an image of pixel characters arranged in a grid, specify which part of the grid is which letter, tweak some other options, and export the whole thing as a font file. That made it really easy for me to build a font!

I took most of the letters from SMW verbatim, but I changed a few to look nicer (I gave some slight curve to the lowercase h and l, and letters like d and g can now have proper ascenders and descenders instead of being confined to 8x8) and added a handful of new characters (@, $, #, accented letters, etc.).

I even added kerning for all letter pairs - yep, all of them! I'm not a professional typographer but I think the result looks okay. (kerning is when you adjust the space between two letters so those particular letters look better together - for example, you can reduce the space between a T and an a so the a can fit snugly underneath).

If you want to make changes or add your own letters, you can! The source is on GitHub. Open the pixel font editor linked above, import the image and the settings (when you edit the image, you need to re-import it), change them to your liking, and export a font. I'm sure you'll figure it out. (note: apparently, the way this tool works, kerning only works with OTF fonts, not TTF.)

And if you just want to use this font, go ahead:



(and yeah, it also includes a monospace version, if you're tubular enough to actually use it for programming. )

Enjoy!

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Nice font, but the link to the Pixel Font Converter doesn't lead anywhere. Clicking on the link just goes to a blank white page with "about:blank#blocked" on the address bar.

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Oh this is super useful! I already have it installed for whatever I need it for (I have ideas).

Thank you for making an improved version, WYE.

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This is very cool! I would love to see this expanded to other SMW "fonts". Especially the common layer 3 font.


If it helps anyone, a while back I compiled all the letters from SMW(U) into one image for VLDC purposes.
(Except the MARIO START and related text, I missed those.)

Wow this is great. I going to download this and use it for my works and projects.

Thanks a lot, WYE.

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@wye: A nice font release really fit for computer. Good job!

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This is such a "WYE at C3" release!

As in, it's something quite simple, and I'm really not sure if I'll be needing it for anything, but it's definitely a thing that could be useful given the right circumstances. I can definitely think of at least two situations where I might have a need for this. And even just as C3 thread gimmick, it's still fun.

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Feel free to visit my website/blog - it's updated rarely, but it looks pretty cool!