Double-height recreation of Amiga’s iconic Topaz typeface.
This is an Amiga-native recreation of one of the most beautiful and readable 8×8 pixel typefaces ever created: Topaz — now rendered in pixel-perfect 8×16px for modern resolutions.
Out of the box, Amiga used a tall (~2:1) resolution — 640×200 (NTSC) or 640×256 (PAL) -- which means that the standard Topaz typeface/font would be half-height if you were using it with resolutions with a pixel aspect ratio closer to 1:1.
For some reason, there has never been an Amiga-native version of a double-height Topaz (at least not that I could find) for use with resolutions with a square (1:1) pixel ratio, so I made one.
This typeface is ideal for “modern” resolutions like 800×600, 1024×768, classic Amiga resolutions like 640×400 and 640×512 (Hi-Res Interlace) — as well as 16:9 resolutions like 720p and 1080p, which are supported by the MiSTer FPGA Amiga core and RTG graphics implementations.
Two typefaces are included:
A double-height recreation of the Topaz variant used in AmigaOS 2 and 3.
A double-height recreation of the Topaz variant used in AmigaOS 1.2 and 1.3.
Copy the contents of the Fonts directory to your FONTS: assign on the Amiga.
The typeface was lovingly recreated by hand, since there are no obvious ways to easily scale an Amiga font file to be twice the height, and I didn’t feel like reverse engineering the Amiga font file format.
Original Serif (1.x) typeface design by Bob Burns (AmiWest 2016 talk).
Original Sans (2.x/3.x) typeface design by Peter J Cherna. Some Amiga History on this.
The typeface was made by using the excellent modernized version of the Amiga Font Editor by Henryk Richter.
If you find any errors in the conversion, file an issue in the issue tracker.
—Alex Limi · https://limi.net