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The hero
The name in red dragon scales with tan horns along its tops, over a gold subtitle on a glowing ember background.
Heavy letters armoured in dragon scales and horns · v1.000
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Wyrmscale is a heavy display face wearing dragon hide: rows of overlapping scales over every letter, dark seams between the plates and curved horns along each top edge. Hide, scales, horns and glints are separate layers, so a title can be an ember-red wyrm, a frost drake or a black wyvern.
Type tester
Try it with your own words
All five layers are stacked here in the hero's ember red, with rounded scale plates and bevelled horns. Try the other dragons, switch Effects off for flat layers, or the layers off for Solid.
24 px
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Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥
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Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥Wings of the Wyrm 🔥
This preview covers Basic Latin and the dragon lair extras. The full font adds every accented letter.
Features
Made for game interfaces
Heavy dragon-hide letters covered in overlapping scales with bone horn spines, in layer fonts that stack in any colour, plus dragon lair extras for RPG titles.
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Dragon hide in five layers
Shadow, Hide, Scales, Spines and Shine stack into scaled, horned letters in full colour; Solid gives you the whole letter for one-colour text.
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Scales laid row over row
Each row of scales overlaps the one below, like real hide, and the dark seams of the Hide layer show between the plates.
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Horns on every open top
Curved bone spines grow along each edge that faces the sky, from the W's arms to the tops of the lowercase.
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Room for accents
On accented letters the horns under the accent step aside, so á, Š or ŕ keeps its mark clear without losing its spines.
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Any dragon
Recolour hide, scales, horns and glints for an ember wyrm, a frost drake, an emerald serpent, a golden hoard or an obsidian wyvern.
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A lair on the keyboard
A dragon egg, eye, flame, wing, fang, claw marks, gem, gold coins, horn and shield, plus two spiny dividers, typed like letters.
Built-in icons
Twelve icons you can type
Each icon is a character in the font. Click one to copy it, then paste it into anything set in Wyrmscale.
Dragon lair
Dividers
Case study
How Wyrmscale was designed
Why I made it
A dragon boss deserves a name that looks like it could bite. Most dragon fonts get there with a sharp blackletter or a flame effect, and the scales, the actual thing that makes a dragon, are left to a texture someone drops on in Photoshop.
I wanted the hide built into the letters: real scales in rows, horns that grow out of the shapes, and the whole thing recolourable in an engine, so the red wyrm and the frost drake can share one font.
Scales, seams and horns
Under the armour Wyrmscale is a heavy, rounded geometric letter, wide enough to carry a pattern. Over it go overlapping scale plates, each row lying over the next, with the dark hide showing in the seams between them.
Then the horns: a curved spine on every top that's open to the sky. They're why the W in the hero has three and the l has one, and why accented letters were the hard part. Under an accent the horns move aside, so the mark always has room.
Five layers of a dragon
The stack runs Shadow, Hide, Scales, Spines and Shine, bottom to top: a dark outline with depth, the letter and its seams, the scale plates, the bone horns, and a glint on the dome of each scale. All five share every width and kerning pair, so the copies line up exactly.
Recolour them and the same title becomes a different creature: blue scales and white horns for a frost drake, green for a serpent, gold for a hoard dragon, or grey scales with red horns for a wyvern from the dark.
The lair
The extras are the things a dragon keeps: an egg covered in its own scales, a slit-pupilled eye, a flame, a bat-like wing, a fang, three claw marks, a gem, a stack of gold coins, a ridged horn and a scaled shield. Two spiny dividers sit on the dash keys for menus and chapter cards.
They're drawn in every layer, so the egg and the shield pick up the scale texture and the horn colour of whatever dragon you've built.
In use
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The Photoshop template
The editable hero layout from the download, with the scaled name over a framed blue subtitle.
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As a title screen
Wings of the Wyrm: a dragon eye above a red scaled title, a gold chapter line and three menu buttons over dark mountains.
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Anatomy of a letter
An n with its horn spines, overlapping scales, glints and seams of hide, next to Dragon and the Hungarian Sárkány with accents.
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The layers
Solid and the five layers on their own as Dr, then stacked, with the colour of each layer.
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Any dragon
Ember Wyrm, Frost Drake, Emerald Serpent, Golden Hoard and Shadow Wyvern, each with its five swatches.
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Dragon lair extras
The egg, eye, flame, wing, fang, claw marks, gem, gold coins, horn and shield, and the two spiny dividers, with their code points.
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Character set
Capitals, lowercase, figures, symbols and accented letters, set in ember, gold, frost and emerald.
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 6 layers work?
Wyrmscale comes as 6 layer fonts (Shadow, Hide, Scales, Spines, 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. Wyrmscale Solid also works on its own in one colour.
Are the scales part of the font?
Yes. The scale plates are drawn on the Scales layer and the dark seams come from the Hide layer underneath, so the pattern shows anywhere you can stack text, game engines included. The shading on the plates and horns in the marketing art is an extra bevel you can add in a design app.
What happens to the horns on accented letters?
They step aside. Under an accent the horns are left out or moved, so every accented letter keeps its scales and spines and the accent still has room.
Can I use Wyrmscale 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 Wyrmscale 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 Wyrmscale 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 385 characters, covering Western and Central European languages.
Is Wyrmscale part of a bundle?
Yes. Wyrmscale is in The Complete Font Collection, every font I've made in one download.
Give your game a voice in Wyrmscale.
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