December 2025 sees the fifth year of my Advent of Fonts project where I published a 24-day advent calendar of 8x8 pixel on Mastodon.
Many will be original designs or significantly-extended and make it into my ZX Origins but the straight ports and conversions are listed here as they are not part of that collection.
Those ports needed a home, so as usual they are presented here.
- Day Out
- Disney's Mulan (Gameboy)
- Kilonova
- A Rock Star Ate My Hamster
- Clear Plan
- Great Giana Sisters (C64)
- Expedition
- Robocop (Arcade)
- Magchrome
- Hevetica9 (GEOS)
Day 1 - Day Out
Day 2 - Disney's Mulan (Gameboy)
This brush font taken from Disney's Mulan on the Gameboy exudes character with its rough brush strokes.
Originally only upper-case I extended this with my own lower-case attempt and missing symbols!
Day 4 - A Rock Star Ate My Hamster
The side-scroller Leander from Psygnosis bears more than a resemblance to their Shadow of the Beast and while the in-game fonts are okay it's the title font that really stands out with it's stylish curves and serif-induced strokes.
Here's a conversion of the title font with some extra glyphs to round it off.
Download A Rock Star Ate My Hamster font
Day 6 - Great Giana Sisters (C64)
Tempted by the success of Super Mario Bros Rainbow Arts comissioned Armin Gessert & Manfred Trenz to create a Mario-like game.
The result was Great Giana Sisters which although similar to Mario had different enemies, characters, maps & powerups.
It was not different enough for Nintendo...
I've added my own interpretation of a lower case to round it off again.
Download Great Giana Sisters (C64) font
Day 8 - Robocop (Arcade)
Data East's 1988 side-scrolling shoot-em-up had some reasonable home conversions but only the arcade featured this font (and a couple of others)
Stark, angular and a little rough it embodies the distopian corporate decay rather well and unusually (for an arcade font) includes lower-case!
Download Robocop (Arcade) font
Day 10 - Helvetica9 (GEOS)
This 9 point - presumably unofficial version - was found in Glenn Holmer's GEOS font catalog PDF likely from one of the many disks he generates that from. (There are also larger sizes but they don't fit in 8x8)
Obviously designed as proportional typeface the screenshots don't quite do it justice!
The FZX file included in the ZIP has a proportional variant.
Download Helvetica9 (GEOS) font
