Marais

I designed this font in 2019 when I saw Andy McDermott had written a text adventure set in France called Resistance that was using the built-in ROM font and created this from scratch to give it a hand-written French feel.

It was not used in the game — I hope because he couldn’t find enough spare bytes as he had 727 bytes left and a RAW Spectrum font is 768 bytes.

The font works well for titles, lists, and long runs of text and I’d love to see it finally get a home in a text adventure.

Can be seen in Mecki - Winter Hibernation.

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