SixTek White and SixTek Black

by Corundum (Glenn Matthews) <glennfield@mac.com>
made with FontForge <http://fontforge.sf.net/>

These are a pair of fonts inspired by the text font used in the SNES game "Final Fantasy VI" (aka "Final Fantasy III"). 

SixTek White is intended to closely resemble the game's font. Since the game's font uses three shades of gray, but a computer font can only use a single color, SixTek White uses outlines and drop shadows to imitate the shades of gray used in the game. As a result, it looks much like the game's font, but tends to become difficult to read at small font sizes (smaller than about 18 point).

SixTek Black aims for increased legibility, and so avoids the use of outlines and drop shadows. It therefore does not resemble the original as closely, but it is much more legible than SixTek White at small sizes, remaining very clear even at 9 point.

Since Final Fantasy VI was an RPG, it had a number of special symbols used to represent equipment, items, and spells. Both of these fonts contain similar symbols. As I am an American Mac user, I mostly attached these symbols to characters that are easy to type and reasonably intuitive on a standard Mac U.S. QWERTY keyboard. (See the included "SixTek Cheat Sheet" for a list.) It should be possible to type them on other keyboard layouts and/or other operating systems, but I leave that to you to figure out. Sorry.

A number of additional symbols are not shown in that "cheat sheet" - the 8-directional arrows, the multiplication symbol, and the two dot leader character seen in the game are all provided only as Unicode characters and do not have any simple keyboard shortcuts that I am aware of. 

Both of these fonts contain every text character seen in Final Fantasy VI; in addition, they add a number of common punctuation marks not seen in the game, including []\{}|<>_`.

You may redistribute these fonts freely so long as this "Read Me" file and the "SixTek Cheat Sheet" are included, unmodified, and I retain authorship credit. 

You may use these fonts for any purpose you like, although you use them entirely at your own risk. I make no guarantee that they won't break your word processor, crash your computer, give rise to a race of evil artificial intelligences, or do anything else, bad or good. 

If you find these fonts useful, I'd love to hear from you, and I'd especially like to hear if you actually end up using them in something available to the general public such as a web site.

Enjoy!