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The hero
The name in stacked gold with ruby inlays, under a jewelled crown and over a scrolled divider, on midnight blue.
Chiselled gold capitals with gems, in stackable layers · v1.000
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Gildmark is a serif display face cut like engraved gold: each stroke has a lit side and a shaded side, a dark rim and a polished edge, and a stylistic set drops a gem into every letter. The parts come as separate layer fonts, so the same title can be gold, silver, rose gold, bronze or jade.
Type tester
Try it with your own words
All seven layers are stacked here in the hero's gold and ruby, with its lit metal and a fine grain. The gems live in Stylistic Set 1, on here as in the art: switch off Jewelled letters for plain gold. Try the other metals, switch Effects off for flat layers, or the layers off for Solid. Lowercase keys type small capitals.
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This preview covers Basic Latin and the treasure extras. The full font adds every accented letter.
Features
Made for game interfaces
Chiselled gold capitals and small caps in eight layer fonts that stack into lit metal, with a jewelled set and treasure extras for fantasy game titles.
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Metal in seven layers
Shadow, Rim, Gold, Light, Dark, Jewels and Shine stack into faceted, lit metal with no bevel effect or plug-in; Solid holds the whole letter for one-colour use.
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Cut, not smoothed
Every stroke is split into a facet that faces the light and one that turns away, with bracketed serifs, so the letters read as engraved metal.
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A gem in every letter
Stylistic Set 1 swaps in a jewelled version of each letter with the same spacing, and the stones sit on their own layer so they take any colour.
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Any metal, any stone
Recolour the layers for gold and ruby, silver and sapphire, rose gold and amethyst, bronze and emerald, or jade and topaz.
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Capitals & small caps
Capitals on the uppercase keys and small capitals on the lowercase ones, so a title like The Golden Throne sets with classical proportions.
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Treasure on the keyboard
A medallion, crown, gem, coins, key, chalice, gem ring, laurel, fleuron and two scrolled dividers, typed like letters and drawn in every layer.
Built-in icons
Eleven icons you can type
Each icon is a character in the font. Click one to copy it, then paste it into anything set in Gildmark.
Treasure
Ornaments
Case study
How Gildmark was designed
Why I made it
Gold lettering is everywhere in fantasy games: the title over the throne room, the name of a legendary sword, the chapter card before a boss. It's almost always made the same way, a serif typed in a design app and buried under bevel, gradient and texture effects, and then it stays a flat picture that can't be rewritten or translated.
I wanted the metal to be in the letters. If the facets, the rim and the polish are drawn into the font, the gold survives into a game engine, a web page or a menu that changes every week.
How a letter is cut
I drew Gildmark as a classical capital with bracketed serifs, then cut every stroke in two along its length: one facet that catches the light and one that falls into shade. A thin dark rim frames the whole letter and a bright edge runs along the cut, the way light catches a chiselled arris.
Each of those parts is a layer font: Shadow, Rim, Gold, Light, Dark, Jewels and Shine, from the bottom up. They share every advance and kerning pair, so seven copies of a word stack exactly, and five colours plus a gem colour turn the same title from royal gold into moon silver or old bronze.
Two finishes
Turn on Stylistic Set 1 and every letter gets a round stone set into a stroke, on the bowl of an R, the bar of an A or the stem of an I. The spacing doesn't change, so a title can switch between plain and jewelled without moving a thing.
The stones live on the Jewels layer, so they take their own colour: rubies in gold, sapphires in silver, emeralds in bronze, or a different stone in every letter like the GILDED sample in the layers image.
Treasure to go with it
Fantasy menus need more than letters, so the font carries a crown, a cut gem, a stack of coins, a key, a medallion, a chalice, a gem ring, a laurel sprig, a fleuron and two scrolled dividers. They're drawn in every layer, so a crown stacks into gold with red stones like the title above it.
The lowercase keys type small capitals, and there are tabular figures for gold counts and prices that shouldn't shuffle as they change.
In use
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The Photoshop template
The editable hero layout from the download on a crimson background, with the name in plain gold and a silver subtitle in a framed plate.
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As a title screen
The Golden Throne: a jewelled gold title, a silver subtitle and a gold menu marked with ruby gems.
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Anatomy of a letter
A gilded R with its polished edge, dark rim, gem inlay, lit and shaded facets and bracketed serifs, next to CROWN in the standard and jewelled sets.
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The layers
Solid and the seven layers on their own as GA, then stacked into GILDED with a different stone in every letter.
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Metals and stones
Five titles recoloured as gold and ruby, silver and sapphire, rose gold and amethyst, bronze and emerald, and jade and topaz, with their swatches.
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Treasure extras
The medallion, crown, gem, coins, key, chalice, gem ring, laurel, fleuron and the two dividers, with their code points.
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Character set
Capitals, small capitals, figures and symbols, accented letters in gold, silver and rose gold, and a last row in the jewelled set.
What you get
Everything in the download
- Desktop fontsOTF for design apps, TTF for game engines and Windows, every layer.
- Web fontsWOFF2 for every layer, with unlimited web use.
- Game engine packBMFont bitmap fonts (.fnt, .xml and .png atlas) at 32, 64 and 128 px, for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
- Photoshop templateAn editable hero layout with live type layers, layer effects and textures.
- README and licenseSetup tips for design apps, websites and game engines, and the full license.
License
Included with every purchase
- Games and apps, embedded for unlimited copies sold
- Logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales
- Installed on unlimited computers: yours, your team's and your company's
- Websites, with unlimited page views and traffic
Ask me first
- Products where customers type their own text in the font
- Resale in asset packs, templates or font collections
Please don't share or resell the font files. For anything the license doesn't cover, email me. idris.hadjoudj@gmail.com
FAQ
Before you buy
How do the 8 layers work?
Gildmark comes as 8 layer fonts (Shadow, Rim, Gold, Light, Dark, Jewels, Shine, Solid) with the same spacing and kerning. Type the same text in each, stack the copies exactly on top of each other and give each its own colour. Gildmark Solid also works on its own in one colour.
How do I get the gems in every letter?
Turn on Stylistic Set 1 (ss01) on all the layers. Each letter switches to its jewelled version, and the stones appear on the Jewels layer, where you can give them their own colour. Spacing and kerning stay the same. The treasure extras have their stones without it.
Is the gold look part of the font?
The facets, rim, polished edges and gems are drawn into the layers, so the metal works anywhere you can stack text, including game engines. The soft gradient and grain on this page are extra fills on the Gold and Light layers, which you can add in a design app or leave flat.
Can I use Gildmark in a game I sell, or for its logo?
Yes. Commercial use is included for games, apps, logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales, and you can embed the fonts and bitmap fonts in games and apps for unlimited copies. Products where your customers type their own text, and resale in asset packs, need an extended license: just ask.
Does Gildmark work in Unity, Godot and GameMaker?
Yes. Use the TTF files in any engine that imports fonts, or the included game engine pack: BMFont bitmap fonts at 32, 64 and 128 px for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
Can I use Gildmark on my website?
Yes. WOFF2 web fonts are included, and web use is unlimited, with no cap on page views or traffic.
Which languages does it support?
Each font has 379 characters, covering Western and Central European languages.
Is Gildmark part of a bundle?
Yes. Gildmark is in The Complete Font Collection, every font I've made in one download.
Give your game a voice in Gildmark.
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