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A '''character set''', or simply '''tileset''', is an image in BMP or PNG format that contains the 256 different tiles, corresponding to the [[Main:Character table|IBM Code Page 437]] (sometimes called Extended ASCII). They are used to display the main graphics.

=Background=

=Installation=

To use a specific tileset with Dwarf Fortress you must perform the following steps:

## For ''DF 0.28.181.40d'' or older: Open the file in an image editor and save it as a '''24-bit bitmap''' (BMP) if it isn't already in that format.

## For ''DF 0.31'' or newer: Open the file in an image editor and save it as a '''PNG'''  with ''transparency'' if it isn't already in that format.

# Move/Copy the file to the DF art directory (''<DF Dir>/data/art'').

# Edit the initialization configuration file (''<DF Dir>/data/init/init.txt'') to specify the tileset file to use. There are four locations that can be changed:

## Specify the tileset for a windowed display by setting the filename in the '''[FONT:''<filename>'']''' tag.

## Specify the tileset for a full-screen display by setting the filename in the '''[FULLFONT:''<filename>'']''' tag.

## Specify the tileset for a windowed graphical display by setting the filename in the '''[GRAPHICS_FONT:''<filename>'']''' tag.

## Specify the tileset for a full-screen graphical display by setting the filename in the '''[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:''<filename>'']''' tag.

 

Once the file is saved and the required changes are made, you are ready to play DF with your new tileset!

=Square Tilesets=

|image=[[Image:Kein_400x125.png]]

|comments=A large 257x257 DFMA world gen map can be found [http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-3278-5x5largeworldmap here.]Updated 08/06/08. Changed most text characters as well as some others to 4x4 with blackspace to avoid tiling. Most characters have been revised to be spaced out to be more distinguishable in such a small set. After seeing the dev update earlier today about increasing your view size I decided to create this small font. This has been built completely from scratch, mostly while at work today. I may be making a shaded version in the future. The first image to the right is from the Abeyverse succession game.

|image=[[Image:Zaratustra_custom_5x5.png]]

|image=[[Image:Geti_custom_6x6.png]]

|comments=A 6x6 Tileset optimised for legibility through personal use. Not shaded on most gliphs, aiming for a crisper look. Best at 2x2 pixels.

|image=[[Image:Lord Nightmare 6x6font01.png]]

|comments=Made in 5 hours on 11/5/07 (I was bored and dissatisfied with other fonts). Most glyphs are really 5&times;6, with a seperator column.

|image=[[Image:Lord Nightmare 6x6font02.png]]

|comments=Version 2.05. Updated 11/12/07 to de-fuzz uppercase letters, added serifs and clarified lowercase letters, made horizontal spacing consistent throughout character set, fixed one error in the double horizontal-left-right, single-vertical-up-down character, made exclamation points consistent, thinned out question mark and inverse question mark, sharpened sideways stemless arrows, clarified international characters, and clarified some greek letters. Since v2.0: fixed 'i' 'g', fixed Yen symbol, fixed smiley 0x01 to not have an extra line to its right, lowered the period and colon characters, fixed position of 'x'. Thanks to Markavian for ideas on how to improve the font, as well as an occasional character glyph.

|image=[[Image:Mkv_curses_480x150.png]]

|comments=The first version the tiny tileset, superceded by the version below.

|image=[[Image:Mkv_curses_480x150_v2.png]]

|image=[[Image:nobbins6x6.png]]

|image=[[Image:nobbin_ts_v2.png]]

image=[[Image:Herrbdog_7x7_tileset.gif]]

|image=[[Image:terbert_7x7.png]]

|image=[[Image:Anikki_square_8x8.png]]

There is also an upscaled [[#Anikki_2|16x16 version]] of this set available for fullscreen use below.

|image=[[Image:cheepicus_8x8.png]]

|comments=An 8x8 tileset I made. Hand-made, mostly ASCII, with just a few special characters, like my other tilesets.}}

|image=[[Image:Jdpage_8x8.png]]

|comments=Modified version of the [[#Anikki|Anikki]] 8x8 tileset. Just prettifies it a bit; some characters are tweaked to make them work slightly better for one of their jobs without disturbing the rest. Others are redesigned entirely. Most importantly, dwarves were given beards.

|image=[[Image:CGA8x8thick.png]]

|image=[[Image:CGA8x8thin.png]]

|image=[[Image:LN_EGA8x8.png]]

|image=[[Image:Pastiche_8x8.png]]

|image=[[Image:Potash_8x8.png]]

|comments=I like packing as much on the screen as I can, but 8&times;8 is just too crowded for 1920&times;1080 fullscreen. I intended to make a 10&times;10 version of Pastiche, but I had to make countless little changes to maintain visual consistency between the two sizes. I finally gave up, called it a new font, and changed some more stuff just because! Like Pastiche, Potash is a pure ASCII/CP437 font, suitable for use outside of Dwarf Fortress should you happen to find yourself stuck in 1985.

|image=[[Image:Acorntileset8x8.png]]

|comments=This is the tileset used by Acorn computers, starting with the BBC Micro.  This version is as it would have appeared in 40-column modes (and shuffled a little to adapt it to CP437).  It also looks nice at double resolution. [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=407 Download the BMP.]

|image=[[Image:yayo_c64_640x200.png]]

|comments=Name: Yayo's C64; Based on the charset of the commodore 64. It's a flat style, but it's clean and also highly readable. I recreated all the missing chars like letters with accents and symbols, trying to get a c64 style as much as possible. If it's too small, use the 16&times;16 version [[#Yayo_2|below]]. :)

|image=[[Image:Zaratustra_msx.png]]

|image=[[Image:720x225_SmoothWalls.PNG]]

|image=[[Image:720x225_SmoothWalls7.png]]

|image=[[Image:Nostalgia_720x225.png]]

|comments=Another square tileset that's usable on low resolutions, modeled after a common font used on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I also made a [[:Image:Nostalgia_1440x450_3e4a08.png|18x18 version]] to fit my 1440x900 screen, back when the aspect ratio of DF was locked. If you like your set a bit more graphical, check out [[:Image:Teeto_K_18x18.PNG|Teeto_K's version]].

|image=[[Image:DortenSolid.png]]

|image=[[Image:Curses_720x225_8d6752.png]]

|comments=There is no doubt that this tileset is old. This must be distinctly understood if anything wonderful is to come of your use of it. You may like [[List_of_user_character_sets#Dorten|Dorten's revision]] more. The following is the original description:<br>I dislike curses_640x300.bmp due to its lack of any kind of graphics for things like a bed or a barrel and the fact that it distorts my beautiful circles, so I made a similarish tileset to fix those.

|image=[[Image:Anikki_square_10x10.png]]

|image=[[Image:buddy.png]]

|image=[[Image:buddy--graphical.png]]

|image=[[Image:ddw.png]]

|comments=Based on Anikki, with some simplifications and modifications. I like Markavian's walls, so I did something similar. The bottom right tile, number 255, I use for pillars. You can set that in your d_init.txt, the line should look like [PILLAR_TILE:255]  

|image=[[Image:Paul_10x10.png]]

|image=[[Image:Potash_10x10.png]]

|image=[[Image:Taffer 10x10.png]]

|image=[[Image:Terbert_10x10.png]]

|image=[[Image:Tocky_square_10x10.png]]

|comments=I tried to make all the pictographic symbols as descriptive as possible: the only ones I've spotted that show up in odd places are the staircase symbols, '<' and '>', which are used as tags on barrel descriptions, and don't match -- but I'm willing to live with that in order to be able to tell up-stairs from down- ones. With everything else, I just tried to maximize clarity and readability and to keep them consistent. I'm really very pleased with how this set turned out.  

|image=[[Image:terminus.png]]

|image=[[Image:Alloy_curses_12x12.png]]

[[Image:cheepicus_12x12_ss.png|thumb|right|cheepicus_12x12 sample]]

|image=[[Image:cheepicus_12x12.png]]

|image=[[Image:Unknown curses 12x12 & Markvii Walls.png]]

|image=[[Image:Haberdash_curses_12x12.png]]

 

 

|image=[[Image:Herrbdog_144.png]]

|author=Herrbdog

|comments=A larger version of this tileset is available [[#Herrbdog 2|below]].

|image=[[Image:Dullard_Exponent_12x12.png]]

|image=[[Image:mkv_solidcurses_stairs_960x300.png]]

|image=[[Image:Mkv_solidcurses_960x300.png]]

|image=[[Image:Markvii.png]]

|image=[[Image:Tileset_unknown_960x300_02.png]]

|image=[[Image:Unknown_curses_12x12.png]]

|image=[[Image:nice_curses_12x12.png]]

|image=[[Image:yayo_tunur_1040x325.png]]

|author=[[User:Yayo|Yayo]]

|dated=2007-10-30

|image=[[Image:Kren_13x13.png]]

|author=[[User:Krenshala|krenshala]]

|dated=2015-12-27 (Updated 2017-08-27)

|size=13&times;13

|comments=I wanted a tileset smaller than 15x15 that would still display nicely on a netbook (e.g. 1366&times;768), but still be clearly legible. I think I have succeeded in that goal.  On a 1680&times;1050 display the resolution is 129&times;80 with this tileset.

|image=[[Image:cheepicus_15x15.png]]

 

|image=[[Image:Talryth_square_15x15.png]]

|image=[[Image:Vidumec_15x15.png]]

|image=[[Image:Aesomatica_16x16.png]]

|author=[[User:Aesomatica|Aesomatica]]

|dated=2008-11-29

|comments=Tileset intended to build upon [[User:Sphr|Sphr's]] and [[User:Jackard|Jackard's]] work, as well as others. Some tiles are original, some are variants and most are copied from various sets the author found pleasing. Notable originals include the broken bolt/ashes tiles, the ballista heads/large hills, the small hills, the ore (gear animation is pleasing, though axle animation is unimproved), ground tiles, and vermin. Also, bins look decent and up/down stairs look okay. This set looks its best with Sphr's graphics.

|image=[[Image:Anikki_square_16x16.png]]

|author=[[User:Anikki|Anikki]]

|dated=2008-7-27

|comments=Based on the original IBM CGA Character set with a lot of tweaks. The characters remain as descriptive yet universal as possible. I chose the CGA set because it is in my opinion the square set with the best readability. This set is for those who like the basic ASCII look where every pixel has meaning or (multiple meanings). This is a scaled up version for fullscreen use. [http://www.anikki.com/share/df/Anikki_square_16x16.bmp Download the BMP]

|image=[[Image:Fnord 16x16.png]]

|author=PopTart

|dated=2016-5-08

|resolution=1280&times;400 native.

|comments="FnordSet contributes a bold Roman font that takes advantage of the square tile. Baskerville served as the main model. This set was also inspired by (and borrows from) the bold geometry of Rogue Yun's Simple Mood and the seriffed grace of the Duerer set. It also draws inspiration from the Ishmeria tileset, which I think complements it nicely as text in TWBT. (Nowadays I use the nicely contrasting sans serif tileset Jecfox for the text font.)" [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158009 Forum thread]

|image=[[Image:Anno_16x16.png]]

|author=[[User:AbuDhabi|AbuDhabi]]

|dated=2011-03-19

|comments=Based on Anikki's 16x16 tileset, but smoothed/enhanced and with the dwarf images reworked.

|image=[[Image:Bisasam_16x16.png]]

|image=[[Image:cheepicus_8x8x2.png]]

|image=[[Image:cheepicus_16x16.png]]

|image=[[Image:Cooz_curses_square_16x16.png]]

image=[[Image:Guybrush_square_16x16.png]]

I recommend to have a look at the [[color schemes|color schemes page]] to find your favorite color settings. The color scheme I used for the screenshots is [[Color_Schemes#.28Yet.29_Another_scheme|this one]].}}

image=[[Image:GuybrushASCII_curses_square_16x16.png]]

|image=[[Image:Herrbdog_16x16_tileset.gif]]

|image=[[Image:MRC_square_16x16.png]]

|image=[[Image:Kai-1280x400-v2 7512b5.png]]

|author=Kaishaku

|image=[[Image:Kelora_16x16_diagonal.png]]

|image=[[Image:Kelora_16x16_diagonal-clouds.png]]

|image=[[Image:Kenran.png]]

|image=[[Image:Kjammer square 16x16 v02.png]]

|image=[[Image:Kjammer square 16x16 v00.png]]

|image=[[Image:Md_curses_16x16.png]]

|comments=This tileset attempts to modify the size and aspect ratio of the classic 8x12 terminal/curses font employed by many rougelikes without sacrificing the distinctive character.

|image=[[Image:DF-Nordic_v1.png]]

|author=[[User:Techhead|Techhead]]

|dated=2009-3-26

|resolution=1280&times;400

|comments=My first attempt at a unique curses-style tileset with a Nordic Theme. Some characters have been altered.

|image=[[Image:PTTGV2tiles.png]]

|image=[[Image:Msgothic.png]]