Hudsmith Icons - 169 Pixel Game Icons as a Font

Hudsmith Icons is a font of 169 crisp 10x10 pixel game icons, so you can type icons straight into UI text, dialogue and tooltips: "Costs 50 C" shows a coin, "Press A" shows the A button, "HHHhe" draws a health bar.

What you get

• New in 1.010: engine files for Godot 4, GameMaker, Construct 3 + JSON atlas (untested in engines)
• 169 icons: hearts (full/half/empty), mana and energy, stars, weapons and gear, potions and food, loot (coins, gems, keys, chests, scrolls, maps, trophies), resources, elements and weather, creatures, interface (check, cross, warning, info, speech, mail, gear, save, trash, play/pause, home, flag ...), controller buttons (A B X Y, PlayStation shapes, LB RB LT RT, start/select, d-pad and directions, sticks) and mouse & keyboard (clicks, wheel, cursor, W A S D Q E R F keys, Enter, Space, Shift, Tab, arrow keys)
• Every icon is reachable three ways: a keyboard character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and a few punctuation keys), its own Private Use Area code point (U+E000-U+E0A8) and the real Unicode symbol where one exists (♥ ★ ✓ ✗ ☠ ⚔ ☀ ♪ ⌂ ← ↑ → ↓ ...)
• A labelled cheat sheet PNG and mapping.json (icon name → characters) for scripting
• TTF, WOFF, BMFont (.png + .fnt + .xml at 1x/2x/4x), glyphs.json

Specs

• 12 px line; icons are 10 px tall and sit on the baseline, so they line up with text at the same size
• One colour, solid silhouettes with 1 px detail, consistent optical size
• Pixel-perfect at multiples of 12 px (12, 24, 36, 48 ...). Checked with FreeType 2.13 glyph by glyph at 12, 24 and 48 px with three hinting modes against the source bitmaps: 2,556 checks, 0 mismatched pixels.

Good to know

• Letters and digits in this font are icon shortcuts, not text. Use it next to a text font (as a fallback or by switching fonts for icon runs).
• A few symbols (♥ ⚙ ⚠ ☀ ...) may be shown as colour emoji by some engines if a variation selector follows them; the Private Use Area code points never are.
• A handful of icons (map, footprints, compass, d-pad directions) are clearest at 2x and up.
• Not tested inside specific engines (README has general setup pointers).

Free sample

10 icons (hearts, coin, key, sword, potion, A/B buttons, star) to test inline in your engine first.

License

Use it in commercial and non-commercial games, apps, videos and anything else, modify it, no credit required. Do not resell or redistribute the font files or icons as a set. Full text in LICENSE.txt.

How it was made

Each icon is a pixel bitmap, and the TTF, BMFont atlases and sheets are built from those same bitmaps. The HUD screen is a simple mockup. The text in the screenshots is Lanternbit and the title is Bannerstone, also by me.

Get all six fonts: the Pixel Font Bundle ($9.99). Matching game UI: Hudsmith UI Kit and Hudsmith Prompts.