OSRS Fonts

Which font the game uses where

Old School RuneScape draws all of its text with 21 fonts of its own, stored in the game files as a small picture for each character. Players know most of them by the names below; the file name, shown with each font above and in the table further down, is what the game itself calls it.

Hitsplats are text too: the number on every hitsplat is Plain 11, since none of the game's hitsplat types names a font of its own. XP drops follow their size setting, Plain 11 at Smallest, Plain 12 at Medium and Bold 12 at Largest, while the mobile client draws them in Plain 11 at every size. Chat over a head is Bold 12 with its black shadow, in every chat colour and effect; the OSRS chat effects page draws those exactly as players see them.

Every font's size and characters

Height is the tallest letter's top to the lowest tail, in pixels, which is also the size the TrueType file draws at one game pixel to one screen pixel. The game writes text one byte at a time in the Windows-1252 character set, so no font goes past its 256 places; a character missing from a font takes up its width and draws nothing.

Plain 12, Bold 12 and the two Plain 12 Monospace fonts are the only ones with the long dash (—) and with Ÿ, which Verdana 11 Bold also has; Œ and œ are in those four and in every Verdana font. No font draws the short dash (–), and it takes no space either, so the words either side of one run together. The five league symbols sit on the places Windows-1252 gives to ‚ ƒ „ … and †, and no font has all five: Quill has four, and only Bold 12 has the one on ‚. Type one of those characters into the OSRS font generator to draw its symbol. Plain 12 Monospace and Plain 12 Monospace Characters give every character the same 8-pixel width apart from the league symbols, so digits line up in columns.

Every character in one font

The character sheet lays out every place in a font, from the space to ÿ, with the game's picture of each character at up to four times its size, its Unicode code point and how many pixels it moves the next letter along. A dashed box is a character the font has no picture for.

Download the fonts

Each font downloads as a TrueType file built from the game's own pictures, every lit pixel a square, so it installs on Windows, macOS and Linux and works in image editors, word processors and web pages. Set the size to the TrueType size below, or a whole multiple of it, and it draws exactly as the game does; between those sizes the squares fall across pixel edges and look soft. In an image editor, turn anti-aliasing off. The game's shadow is not part of the letters: it is the same text drawn again one pixel down and to the right in black.

On a web page, load the file with @font-face and set font-size to the exact size in pixels. The files also carry the game's pictures at that size, which Chrome and Edge on Windows use to draw them crisp. Invisible has no pictures, as in the game, so its file sets spacing only.