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Post #13458

2025-11-21 16:53 UTC

"There are so many free fonts, why would anyone buy yours?!" and yet… 🤷‍♂️ https://itch.io/s/158296/40-pixel-fonts-for-40-dollars-thats-it-thats-the-sale

Replies (9)

  • Ahem, 95% of the goal right now. that was FAST. 😱

    Open ##1726099

  • @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2025-11-22 21:10

    @somepx finding good fonts with licensing terms that don't strangle you or your project to death when you actually use them, is honestly unreasonably hard, so even to me it's very tempting, as much as I don't have a direct use for it right now :P the people that don't understand are always the loudest. sometimes, if context permits, I just pretend they aren't sarcastic, and will gently explain my case; it has worked far more than I personally would've expected it to.

    Open ##1726100

  • @beepster4096@furry.engineer 2025-11-22 23:45

    @somepx woah these are nice fonts

    Open ##1726103

  • @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io 2025-11-23 00:20

    @somepx Thanks for this! My only complaint to them is that 'bundle' doesn't normally imply 'click download 40 times'. But it's a small complaint. EDIT; correction: 80 times. Click download to get the page, click download do the actual download.

    Open ##1726104

  • @DanMorgan@vmst.io 2025-11-23 15:19

    @somepx @gedeonm ooh, I know! 🙋🏼‍♂️ For me it always comes down to punctuation and special characters. What does the bullet • look like? The ampersand &? What does the “Q” look like? Is there a ™ a © an ®? Even the @ symbol in today’s world. I’m working on a recipe book and I “auditioned” about a dozen typefaces until I found one with the fraction glyphs and that I found pleasing to the eye. ⅛ ¼ ⅓ ½ ⅔ ¾ I’m obsessive to the point of it being a diagnosable condition or possibly a super power.

    Open ##1726107

  • @somepx because I love pixel fonts and I wanted to support you even when I have doubts I will use them in any official product. keep them coming, the world NEEDS pixel fonts ;)

    Open ##1726109

  • @somepx Because they're great!

    Open ##1726111

  • @DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-11-25 16:39

    @somepx Is there any chance you have a single "sample" pixel font somewhere? I've been using GDevelop, which seems quite picky about which pixel fonts will work reliably. (I'm more likely to buy just one than the bundle anyway, though, so if you don't already happen to have a freebie out there then don't worry about it.)

    Open ##1726113

  • @somepx Do any of these cover Hiragana, Hanzi or Hangul characters? Or European characters like ç ö ß é

    Open ##1726115