Tileset repository

For user-created graphic sets, see Graphics set repository.

A character set, or simply tileset, is an image in BMP or PNG format that contains the 256 different tiles, corresponding to the IBM Code Page 437 (sometimes called Extended ASCII). They are used to display the main graphics. This page serves as a repository for custom tilesets made by users, including instructions on how to install them.

Background

The default tilesets (640×300 and 800×600) render 8×12 and 10×12 characters respectively, with majuscule latin letters occupying a 7×9 box, and appear broadly similar to the IBM MDA font based on the shape of the "0", "g", and "f" characters (but with slight differences including the "0", "W", and "y"). The exact origin of the DF font is unknown.

Installation

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

1. Download the tileset to your computer. Each tileset is just an image, so there is no separate download link. (Right-Click on the tileset image and Save-As.)
2. If necessary, convert the tileset to the correct image format for the version of DF you are using:
   1. 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.
   2. For DF 0.31.01 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.
3. Move/Copy the file to the DF art directory (.../data/art).
4. Edit the initialization configuration file (.../data/init/init.txt) to specify the tileset file to use. There are four locations that can be changed:
   1. Specify the tileset for a windowed display by setting the filename in the [FONT:<filename>] tag.
   2. Specify the tileset for a full-screen display by setting the filename in the [FULLFONT:<filename>] tag.
   3. Specify the tileset for a windowed graphical display by setting the filename in the [GRAPHICS_FONT:<filename>] tag.
   4. Specify the tileset for a full-screen graphical display by setting the filename in the [GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:<filename>] tag.
   5. Once you have made the changes you need to remember to save the file.

If the selected tileset requires modifications to the Raws, you will have to make those edits. What those changes are will depend on the tileset itself.

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

Square tilesets

1×1

Title [[#{{{filename}}}|{{{filename}}}]] Author Loud Whispers Dated 2015-03-30 Tile Size 1×1 Resolution 80×25 Versions Comments So on suggestion I made the new version of Monoscii which has every tile be 1 pixel, the entire map nearly fits into the screen just fine. Monoscii Lite is superior in every way, the information is denser, crisper and cleaner. pUrists will finally be one step closer to the most pUrist DF possible. (forum post link)

Monoscii Lite

5×5

Title Kein_400x125.png Author Kein Dated 2008-8-7 Tile Size 5×5 Resolution 400×125 Versions Comments A large 257x257 DFMA world gen map can be found 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 Abbeyverse succession game.

Kein's 5x5

Title Zaratustra_custom_5x5.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2008-11-20 Tile Size 5×5 Resolution 400×125, 800×250, 800×500 Versions Comments

6×6

Title Geti_custom_6x6.png Author Geti Dated 2010-08-04 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150, 960times;300 Versions Comments A 6x6 Tileset optimised for legibility through personal use. Not shaded on most glyphs, aiming for a crisper look. Best at 2x2 pixels.

Title Lord Nightmare 6x6font01.png Author Lord Nightmare Dated 2007-11-5 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150 Versions Comments Made in 5 hours on 11/5/07 (I was bored and dissatisfied with other fonts). Most glyphs are really 5×6, with a separator column.

Title Lord Nightmare 6x6font02.png Author Lord Nightmare Dated 2007-11-12 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150 Versions 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.

Lord Nightmare's 6x6 v2

Title Mkv_curses_480x150.png Author Markavian Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150 Versions Comments The first version of the tiny tileset, superseded by the version below.

Title Mkv_curses_480x150_v2.png Author Markavian Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150 Versions Comments My second version of the tiny tileset, for uber small resolution DF, with improved visibility of several symbols. Available in mkv curses 12×12 and 6×6 v2.zip.

Markavian's 6x6 v2

Title nobbins6x6.png Author Nobbins Dated 2010-01-10 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150, 960×300 Versions Comments Tiny tileset for small screens, with experimental colour blending and pseudo-curved walls.

Title nobbin_ts_v2.png Author Nobbins Dated 2010-06-28 Tile Size 6×6 Resolution 480×150, 960×300 Versions Comments Tiny tileset for small screens/large projects, using slightly Monaco-styled serifs. Transparency-supporting version needed. Forum thread.

7×7

Title Herrbdog_7x7_tileset.gif Author herrbdog Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 7×7 Resolution 560×175 Versions Comments

herrbdog's 7x7 tileset

Title terbert_7x7.png Author Terbert Dated 2009-6-30 Tile Size 7×7 Resolution 560×175 Versions Comments This is a 7x7 tileset made for overseeing large constructions

8×8

Title Anikki_square_8x8.png Author Anikki Dated 2008-7-27 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 native. Versions 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). Download the BMP There is also an upscaled 16x16 version of this set available for fullscreen use below.

Title cheepicus_8x8 Author Cheepicus Dated 2014-4-3 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 Versions Comments An 8x8 tileset I made. Hand-made, mostly ASCII, with just a few special characters, like my other tilesets.

cheepicus_8x8 sample

Title Jdpage_8x8.png Author Jdpage Dated 2010-09-15 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 native. Versions Comments Modified version of the 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.

Title CGA8x8thick.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments The original IBM CGA Character set, thick variant, dumped from addresses 0x1800-0x1fff the 5788005 IBM Character Generator ROM. This is the far more common 'thick' variant. Best viewed at 8:5 aspect ratio.

Title CGA8x8thin.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2008-6-6 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments The original IBM CGA Character set, thin variant, dumped from addresses 0x1000-0x17ff the 5788005 IBM Character Generator ROM. This is the less common 'thin' variant, which required soldering on two pins and jumpering them on the CGA card to use. Best viewed at 8:5 aspect ratio.

Lord Nightmare's 8×8 CGA tileset

Title LN_EGA8x8.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments The IBM EGA 8×8 Character set, dumped from the 6277356 IBM EGA BIOS ROM. This is ALMOST 100% IDENTICAL to the CGA thick font, but has minor modifications (23 pixels total) done to four characters: the capital 'S', the club sign, the spade sign, and the large asterisk (the one with a hole in the middle, char 0x0f, not the shift-8 one which is char 0x2a). There is no thin variant of this font. Best viewed at 8:5 aspect ratio.

Title RDE_8x8.png Author RedDeadElite Dated 2018-08-17 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 Versions Comments Meant to resemble the vanilla curses tileset, which itself is similar to Microsoft's 8x12 Terminal font. Glyphs sourced from various bitmap fonts and/or modified by hand.

RedDeadElite's 8x8 tileset with Phoebus's color scheme.

Title Pastiche_8x8.png Author tejón Dated 2012-6-12 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 @ 80×25. Versions Comments A mishmash of the CGA, Acorn and C64 character fonts (and just a hint of Fixedsys), with a few pixels nudged here and there and several symbols shifted to make world maps look nicer.

Title Potash_8x8.png Author tejón Dated 2012-6-12 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 @ 80×25. Versions Comments I like packing as much on the screen as I can, but 8×8 is just too crowded for 1920×1080 fullscreen. I intended to make a 10×10 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.

Title Acorntileset8x8.png Author Xenomorph Dated 2008-8-9 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 Versions 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. Download the BMP.

Title yayo_c64_640x200.png Author Yayo Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 Versions 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 16×16 version below. :)

yayo's c64 Tileset

Title Zaratustra_msx.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 or 640×400 Versions Comments The MSX and MSX2 font, shuffled around to fit the char set. Double lines were added.

Zaratustra's 8×8 tileset

9×9

Title 720x225_SmoothWalls.PNG Author Dorten Dated 2009-2-13 Tile Size 9×9 Resolution 720×225 Versions Comments It's improved Savok's tileset, which is changed to make walls look smooth. Plus another little differences.

Dorten's smooth-walled version of Savok's tileset. (Without fix for 7s)

Title 720x225_SmoothWalls7.png Author Dorten Dated 2009-2-13 Tile Size 9×9 Resolution 720×225 Versions Comments Minor tweak so the 7's don't look like question marks.

Title Nostalgia_720x225.png Author maus Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 9×9 Resolution 720×225 Versions Comments Another square tileset that's usable on low resolutions, modelled after a common font used on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I also made a 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 Teeto_K's version.

Title DortenSolid.png Author Qjet Dated 2009-2-13 Tile Size 9×9 Resolution 720×225 Versions Comments Mod of Dortens super sexy 9*9 tileset, this time to provide solid backgrounds to tiles, avoids designation problems by using PNG transparency.

Qjet's solid-background mod of Dorten's smooth-walled edit of Savok's tileset.

Title Curses_720x225_8d6752.png Author Savok Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 9×9 Resolution 720×225 Versions 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 Dorten's revision more. The following is the original description: 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.

Savok's tiny, non-updated tileset.

10×10

Title Anikki_square_10x10.png Author Anikki Dated 2008-7-27 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 native. Versions Comments Based primarily on Tocky and Plac1d's sets (which are brilliant). The characters remain as descriptive as possible with some tweaks to the font for better readability and some changes to symbols for more consistency. This set is for those who like the basic ASCII look where every pixel has meaning or (multiple meanings). Download the BMP (Note: The up and down ramps are reversed.)

Title buddy.png Author buddy Dated 2014-07-12 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution Versions Comments I wanted every character in this set to be the very best text symbol it could possibly be, while still looking good in-game. A hidden feature of this tileset is that the border around the white tile only has its red color-component changed, which means that a nice clear grid shows up over (brown) designations, while (blue) ice walls still look perfectly smooth. [PILLAR_TILE:10]

Title buddy--graphical.png Author buddy Dated 2014-07-16 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution Versions Comments The graphical version of my tileset. data/init/d_init.txt: [PILLAR_TILE:10] [TREE_BRANCHES:171] raw/objects/creature_standard.txt: [CREATURE:GOBLIN] ... [CREATURE_TILE:255]

Title ddw.png Author Ddw Dated 2011-03-10 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 native Versions 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] Example.

Title Paul_10x10.png Author Paul Dated 2008-9-5 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 for 80×25 grid size, others just multiply grid by 10. Versions Comments Custom tileset I made for my own use when the adjustable grid sizes were released for DF. Some accented letters cut slightly to allow for larger letter display. Contains several of Tocky's tiles (barrels, some trees, dimple cups, coins, slightly modified armor stand). Others are either made by me or adjusted from curses_800x600 tiles.

Title Potash_10x10.png Author tejón Dated 2012-6-12 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 @ 80×25. Versions Comments The "full size" version of Potash. I insist on using a square font to maintain sanity when judging sizes and distances, but I'm not a fan of how text usually looks with square glyphs -- the letters are either too wide, or spaced too far apart. I've tried balance those two flaws against each other as much as possible, and I think this font is very readable as a result. Nearly all the 10×10 glyphs have empty borders on all four sides, to prevent confusing (or just ugly) connections between adjacent tiles.

Title Taffer 10x10.png Author Taffer Dated 2017-01-10 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution Looks decent at almost any resolution. Versions Comments A sharp looking, vanilla styled tileset that strives to strike a good balance between nice, attractive graphics, while avoiding graphical oddities. I find the cumulative differences from the ASCII add to the game. Feel free to leave me a note. This has turned into a [1], and includes alternate walls, fonts, and racial graphics.

Title Terbert_10x10.png Author Terbert Dated 2009-6-30 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 Versions Comments This is Terbert's First tileset

Title Tocky_square_10x10.png Author Tocky Dated 2007-11-15 Tile Size 10×10 Resolution 800×250 native, 800×500 for fullscreen. Versions 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.

11×11

Title terminus.png Author Gekz Dated 2010-1-08 Tile Size 11×11 Resolution 880×275 Versions Comments This works great on my EeePCs shoddy resolution of 1024x600, and this is why I made it. This is basically the Terminus font converted for use on DF. I chose this font due to its readability at a low resolutions, and soon I'll convert some of the non-letter characters into actually objects like beds and dwarves, so keep a look out for an updated version that I'll add below. This forum thread has the slightly 'graphical' test version. Quite amusing. Check there for updates.

Terminus Tileset

12×12

Title Alloy_curses_12x12.png Author Alloy Dated 2010-12-3 - v1.1 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 native. Versions Comments Much like Hanuman's conversion, this is based on the default curses_640x300 tileset, converted to 12x12. There are no significant modifications to the tiles, smoothing, etc - just some cosmetic changes mostly to take advantage of 4 extra horizontal pixels. For people who like the original tileset's look and size but want a square version of it.

Title cheepicus_12x12 Author Cheepicus Dated 2010-8-4 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments I wanted a 12x12 ASCII graphics set, sharp, with pleasant text, so I wound up making one myself from scratch. It's a little influenced by Guybrush, which I love, but after awhile the blurriness got to me. (This tileset is not entirely ASCII; I changed the equals sign to a pattern, so that stockpiles would look the way I like.)

cheepicus_12x12 sample

Title Unknown curses 12x12 & Markvii Walls.png Author DDR & Others Dated 2010-9-3 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 native Versions Comments A remix of the Unknown 12x12 curses with Markvii's diagonal walls. Works quite nicely together.

A dwarf practicing archery. He died later.

Title Haberdash_curses_12x12.png Author Haberdash Dated 2014-07-24 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments Similar to Alloy's conversion, this is based on the default curses_800x600 tileset, converted to 12x12. I wrote a GIMP python plugin to add padding to bring each tile up to the required size, and then I manually tidied up the places where the images no longer went all the way to the edge of the tile. This ensures that the positioning of each image within each tile stays exactly the same as in the original tileset, but with a single pixel column added on both sides of the tile to bring it up to size. For people who like the 800x600 original tileset's look and size but want a square version of it.

Title DB_curses_12x12.PNG Author Hanuman Dated 2008-7-23 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 900×300 Versions Comments This is basically the curses_800x600.bmp file converted to 12x12. It may be slightly different but it is close enough for me. Get the .BMP here. Note: If the tileset doesn't look right played at 900x300, try changing the resolution to 966x325.

Title Herrbdog_144.png Author Herrbdog Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments A larger version of this tileset is available below.

Title Dullard_Exponent_12x12.png Author Lord Dullard/Exponent Dated 2009-3-30 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 native Versions Comments Adjusted by Exponent, and with new dwarf characters added. A version of the Unknown 12×12 tileset with smoothed walls. Example: Wiltedblight.

Title mkv_solidcurses_stairs_960x300.png Author Markavian Dated 2007-12-4 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments This revision is designed to work with DF version 0.27.169.33a with special tiles for stairs and ramps, as well as the changes present in the earlier version such as bones, walls, trees and swords. Available in mkv curses 12×12 and 6x6 v2.zip. As seen in the fortress of Axegear.

Title Mkv_solidcurses_960x300.png Author Markavian Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments An older revision of my square tileset, featuring more detailed symbols, with alterations to certain text characters to look more like ingame items. The walls are infilled now. Available in mkv curses 12×12 and 6x6 v2.zip. As seen in the fortress of Inkflew.

Title Markvii.png Author Turnip Dated 2009-7-9 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments My revision of Markavian's tileset, made to be more "curvy"

Title Tileset_unknown_960x300_02.png Author Unknown Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments This is a tileset submitted by an unknown user from the IP address 86.43.81.125.

Title Unknown_curses_12x12.png Author Unknown Dated 2007-11-24 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 Versions Comments This is very similar to the above tileset, but has some noticeable differences. I have no idea where I got it from. It's great on a 1024x768 CRT monitor in windowed mode. I use it in a 1000x500 window with [BLACKSPACE:YES]. --JT

Unknown 12×12 v2

Title nice_curses_12x12.png Author Vidumec Dated 2013-01-30 Tile Size 12×12 Resolution 960×300 native Versions Comments This tileset is a square version of Plac1d's tileset with some modifications, like duller ground tiles and other.

13×13

Title Kren_13x13.png Author krenshala Dated 2015-12-27 (Updated 2017-08-27) Tile Size 13×13 Resolution Versions Comments I wanted a tileset smaller than 15x15 that would still display nicely on a netbook (e.g. 1366×768), but still be clearly legible. I think I have succeeded in that goal. On a 1680×1050 display the resolution is 129×80 with this tileset.

Title yayo_tunur_1040x325.png Author Yayo Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 13×13 Resolution 1040×325 Versions Comments Name: Yayo's Tunur; According to the language files of DF, Tunur means "style" in dwarf language. It may require a bit to get used to some symbols, but it's a very clean tileset. (It's just a bit weird. :P)

yayo's Tunur Tileset

14×14

Title cheepicus_14x14 Author Cheepicus Dated 2018-11-28 Tile Size 14×14 Resolution 1120×350 Versions Comments Back on my bullshit. I made this because I wanted a bold, low-eyestrain tileset.

cheepicus_14x14 sample cheepicus_14x14 sample

15×15

Title cheepicus_15x15 Author Cheepicus Dated 2012-5-6 Tile Size 15×15 Resolution 1200×375 Versions Comments I find the text hard to read in most other tilesets, so I made a new one. Mostly ASCII with a few graphical nods. Lower right char is for PILLAR:255 in df_init.

cheepicus_15x15 sample

Title Talryth_square_15x15.png Author Talryth Dated 2010-06-18 Tile Size 15×15 Resolution 1440×900 (96×60 grid size) 1680×1050 (112×70 grid size) Versions Comments Built from scratch, this ASCII tileset is made with two common 16:10 resolutions in mind. The odd tile size fills the above resolutions without artifacts and it gives an advantage in design, making for sharp features and equal spacing between characters. The manual anti-aliasing gives the set a nice and clean look. Transparent PNG support is needed for this one.

Title Vidumec_15x15.png Author Vidumec Dated 2011-09-05 Tile Size 15×15 Resolution 1440×900 (96×60 grid size) 1680×1050 (112×70 grid size) Actually looks good on any resolution Versions Comments I liked the great Talryth square 15x15 very much! However dwarves tiles were a litlle bit out of the style, so I changed them to default-like ones. Also added background so the there is no more black background which with bright ASCII was hard to my eyes. Again thanks to Talryth for his amazing job!

16×16

Title Anno_16x16.png Author AbuDhabi Dated 2011-03-19 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Based on Anikki's 16x16 tileset, but smoothed/enhanced and with the dwarf images reworked.

Title Aesomatica_16x16.png Author Aesomatica Dated 2008-11-29 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Tileset intended to build upon Sphr's and 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.

Title LCD_Tileset.png Author Agm Dated 2020-02-07 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Semi-graphical ASCII tileset, original work. Font used is Kelora. Suggested that you set [PILLAR_TILE:255] in d_init.txt.

Title 16x16-RogueYun-AgmEdit.png Author Agm Dated 2017-10-21 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments ASCII Edit of Rogue Yun's tileset with diagonal walls and other edited tiles. Suggested that you set [PILLAR_TILE:255] in d_init.txt.

Title Anikki_square_16x16.png Author Anikki Dated 2008-7-27 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions 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. Download the BMP

Title Bisasam_16x16.png Author Bisasam Dated 2010-01-11 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This is the 16x16 version of my 24x24 tileset. A DF version supporting transparent PNGs must be used. In order to use unscaled tiles, horizontal resolution must be at least 1280.

Title cheepicus_8x8x2 Author Cheepicus Dated 2014-4-3 Tile Size 16×16 (doubled 8x8) Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments I liked the font on my 8x8 tileset, but it was too small to use every day. So I doubled it and the result has a nice 8-bit feel. Hand-made, mostly ASCII.

cheepicus_8x8x2 sample

Title cheepicus_16x16 Author Cheepicus Dated 2014-5-10 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Mostly ASCII 16x16 with an art deco/Nixie tube inspired kind of font.

cheepicus_16x16 sample cheepicus_16x16 sample

Title Cooz_curses_square_16x16.png Author Cooz Dated 2009-2-28 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments v1.1 - 3px wide walls and some other tweaks. Based on Klokjammer and Marble Dice tilesets. Some tiles were taken from other sets, some were made from scratch. The aim was to keep feel of default curses font in 16×16 tileset. There's also version without shading.

Cooz's Tileset

Title Guybrush_square_16x16.png Author Guybrush Dated 2007-11-15 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A 16×16 tileset based on the very nice Herrbdog's one, and for use with the superb Dystopian Rhetoric objects. A slightly modified version of Herrbdog's tileset is available below if you want to keep the original ASCII symbols for some objects (just do some cut & paste). It's just a little brighter and with some very slight changes. The tileset shown is a tileset with graphic objects added, for use with Fortress Mode. I recommend to have a look at the color schemes page to find your favorite color settings. The color scheme I used for the screenshots is this one.

Guybrush Tileset the wilderness...

Title GuybrushASCII_curses_square_16x16.png Author Herrbdog, modified by Guybrush Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Here is the slightly modified version of Herrbdog's tileset which still has all the ASCII characters intact

Title Herrbdog_16x16_tileset.gif Author Herrbdog Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments The 16×16 version of Herrbdog's tileset.

Title Oddball-16 Author HexaBlu Dated 2021-07-05 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments "A silly and whimsical 16x16 Tileset focused on unique graphics, Made completely from scratch. The font is designed off of my bad handwriting. "Forum Page

A screenshot of what the landscape looks like using Oddball-16.

Title MRC_square_16x16.png Author Inquisitor Saturn Dated 2008-5-18 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Another 16 by 16 tileset. This one is notable because of the subtle shadowing and a completely original, hand-made font.

Title Redjack17.png Author Jackard Dated 2008-7-22 Tile Size 16x16 Resolution 1280x400 Versions Comments This combines content from other tilesets with Nintendo sprites to give the game a classic dungeon look. Note: Bins are hard to see using this tileset because the "bin" tile is also used as the "up/down staircase" tile. Aesomatica and Martin improve upon this tileset making the bin tile easier to see. You may download all variations of this tileset here.

Title Kai-1280x400-v2 7512b5.png Author Kaishaku Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A square 1280×400 font. Simple and legible. Converted from roarl's 16×16 nethack font, on top of super foul egg's template, extended manually and with ideas from lucida console. This is version 1, created in one morning. Screenshots available here.

Title Kelora_16x16_diagonal.png Author Kelora Dated 2009-7-26 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution Versions Comments A square tileset using the diagonal wall concept from Belal and others but simplified drastically to improve the appearance. All the walls line up correctly and have consistent widths. I did not use much of the pretty but confusing art I see in many of the other sets. I tried for a while to incorporate many of these but found that with the multiple uses for most characters they were just wrong far too often to be useful. The only ones that seem to work are the dwarves which I took from Flying Mage / Guybrush. The pretty 3Dish fonts as well just seem to look muddier and be less legible. I love it and my husband has been happily playing it for months.

Title Kelora_16x16_diagonal-clouds.png Author Kelora Dated Tile Size 16×16 Resolution Versions Comments A square tileset using the diagonal wall concept from Belal and others but simplified drastically to improve the appearance. All the walls line up correctly and have consistent widths. I did not use much of the pretty but confusing art I see in many of the other sets. I tried for a while to incorporate many of these but found that with the multiple uses for most characters they were just wrong far too often to be useful. The only ones that seem to work are the dwarves which I took from Flying Mage / Guybrush. The pretty 3Dish fonts as well just seem to look muddier and be less legible. This tileset is a copy of my first with more realistic clouds I hope.

Title Kenran.png Author Kenran Dated Tile Size 16×16 Resolution Versions Comments This tileset is for the most part identical to the great one by Kelora above. I fixed an error with the single lines and curves (used for instance for rivers on the world map) where two tiles didn't connect correctly. I also adjusted the diagonal walls a bit.

Title Kjammer square 16x16 v02.png Author Klokjammer Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Name: "Masked Adventurer" - after tile (0,4), where '@' used to be. A somewhat abstract version of the original curses square tileset, but with the alpha numeric characters shaped so as not to look distorted. Other symbols are either borrowed from or improved from curses, and some (including the dwarves) were created from the ground up. Alternate variations, are available here.

Title Kjammer square 16x16 v00.png Author Klokjammer Dated 2007-10-31 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A "clean" version of the above set, one without any fancy tiles (except for the dwarves).

Title Md_curses_16x16.png Author Marble Dice Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This tileset attempts to modify the size and aspect ratio of the classic 8x12 terminal/curses font employed by many roguelikes without sacrificing the distinctive character.

Title Runeset_16x16.png Author monkeyfritz Dated 2018-3-23 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 256×256 Versions Comments Runeset is an RSCII (Runic Standard Code for Information Interchange) font pack for Dwarf Fortress. Much more dwarfy than that American standards stuff. Best used with Runeset Mapmaker or Runeset color schemes.

Runeset Maps

Title PTTGV2tiles.png Author PTTG Dated 2007-11-21 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A new version! Clean, sharp, and clear. All-original, and large size for big screens! Also features coloured indicators for levers, helping to remove the guesswork. It is good stand-alone, or with my graphics set.

Title Fnord 16x16.png Author PopTart Dated 2016-5-08 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions 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.)" Forum thread

Title Msgothic.png Author User:Random832 Dated 2009-4-22 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×800 etc Versions Comments Based on the ＭＳ ゴシック (MS Gothic) japanese font, with some gaps filled in from the VGA 8x16 font, and some other characters tweaked by hand.

Title Raving_1280x400.png Author RavingManiac Dated 2010-3-13 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A heavily modified version of Tyrving's tileset, with smoothed walls based on those from Tahin's. This tileset was made to retain the feel of the original curses in a square tileset with smoothed walls. Download the BMP.

Title 16x16_sm.png Author Rogue Yun Dated 2015-06-09 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments I recommend setting all the pillar tiles in d_init.txt to tile 10. Possible updates may be on this thread.

Title 16x16_sb_ascii.png Author Rogue Yun Dated 2018-11-04 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A good solid ASCII Tileset. See the Something Boxy thread for more information and updates.

Title Sapphos_square_16x16.png Author Sappho Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Another square font, target resolution 1280×400. This one is exactly the same as the default font except it has been made square, painstakingly edited to ensure that nothing looks squished.

Title Savok_curses_1280x400_517caa.png Author Savok Dated 2008-6-16 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Unsatisfied with any existing tileset, I decided to go about creating my own. Since I can't create from scratch, I had to take tiles from other tilesets and modify them, in an evolution-like manner, until they became how I wanted them. Since most are dramatically different from the tileset I took them from, I believe I can call them original. In the raws, change the tag [TILE:'U'] for humans to [TILE:172]. This changes both the image and corpse of humans to a unique image, which creature graphics cannot do. The elves also get a different tile, [TILE:171]. I plan to make a separate goblin symbol. If you use it and like it, please leave a message for at my talk page or at the DFFD page. This will greatly speed progress, since I won't be doing it just for myself. Note: The DFFD version is updated more frequently and has the changelist.

Title SFE_Curses_square_16x16.png Author Super Foul Egg Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments The font is rough as hell and some of the characters still need attention, but it'll do for now. Since this tileset is for graphics mode I'd rather wait for more complete object support than hack in pictures and gum up the UI. Uppercase from this site

Title Tahin_16x16_rounded.png Author Tahin Dated 2007-12-28 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Based on Marble Dice's tileset, above. Smoothed corners are "rounded", which takes some getting used to but look quite nice, in my opinion. I have managed to get all of the standard "L" tiles to fit together nicely, but "T" and "+" don't quite match up. It's not a problem that comes up often, and it still doesn't look that bad, but I'll get to it eventually.

Title DF-Nordic_v1.png Author Techhead Dated 2009-3-26 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments My first attempt at a unique curses-style tileset with a Nordic Theme. Some characters have been altered.

Title Markx.png Author TurnipII Dated 2018-8-2 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Descended from the original MarkVII tileset. Has Markavian inspired walls, and many of Anikki's characters.

Title Tyr_1280x400.PNG Author Tyrving Dated 2008-2-15 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments None of the existing modifications of curses_square satisfied me, so I made my own. The bulk of it is from Klokjammer's set, with the dwarf symbols and @ taken from Sappho's. Quite a few minor alterations have been made, and I feel that it's become distinct enough to release it.

Title Winterwing_Curses_16x16_lucon.png Author Winterwing Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Like usual, lucida console with cleartype. Creative, huh. :)

Lucida Console with Dystopian Rhetoric objects

Title Yayo_c64_1280x400_83b157.png Author Yayo Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Name: Yayo's C64; The 16×16 version of Yayo's tileset.

Title Zaratustra_16x16.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-11-10 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Because everyone is making one.

Title Zilk_16x16.png Author Zilk Dated 2015-7-15 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This tileset is based on Lord Nightmare's IBM CGA character set. I made a lot of minor modifications to clean the tiles up and give them symmetry in all directions. The result is a wide tileset that looks relatively similar to the default 8x12 curses tileset.

Preview with a high-contrast Solarized color scheme

18×18

Title Haowan_Curses_1440x450.png Author Haowan Dated 2007-11-2 Tile Size 18×18 Resolution 1440×450 Versions Comments An enlarged version of a square version of the default set.

Title Teeto_K_18x18.PNG Author Teeto_K Dated 2008-10-24 Tile Size 18×18 Resolution 1440×450 Versions Comments A tileset based on Maus's 18x18 version of his "Nostalgia" tileset, however, it has been heavily revised. The entire font has been "smoothed over", and many of the symbols changed to more "graphical" representations of the items they represent. An attempt to fill the void of "graphic heavy" tilesets in the 18x18 tile-size. A special emphasis is placed on maximizing the text's readability, while still providing a "graphics enhanced" play area. Special thanks to Maus for the font, and Guybrush for the inspiration.

20×20

Title Anikki_square_20x20.png Author Anikki Dated 2008-7-27 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1600×500 native. Versions Comments Based primarily on Tocky and Plac1d. This is a scaled-up version of the 10x10 tileset for fullscreen use. Download the BMP (Note: The up and down ramps are reversed.)

Title Bisasam_20x20.png Author Bisasam Dated 2010-05-15 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1600×500 (80x25 grid size); 1600×1000 (80x50 grid size) Versions Comments This is the 20x20 version of my 24x24 tileset. A DF version supporting transparent PNGs must be used. In order to use unscaled tiles, horizontal resolution must be at least 1600.

Title Bisasam_20x20_ascii.png Author Bisasam Dated 2010-05-15 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1600×500 (80x25 grid size); 1600×1000 (80x50 grid size) Versions Comments This is the 20x20 version of my 24x24 tileset. Graphical tiles have been replaced by ASCII ones. A DF version supporting transparent PNGs must be used. In order to use unscaled tiles, horizontal resolution must be at least 1600.

Title Japa 0x20.png Author Japa Dated 2019-04-29 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1600×500 (80x25 grid size); 1600×1000 (80x50 grid size) Versions Comments This is the 20x20 version of the default curses_800x600 tileset, hand-tweaked to give as similar a feel to the original as possible, while still being square and larger, without any resizing artifacts.

Title Taffer_20x20.png Author Taffer Dated 2017-01-10 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution Looks best at high resolutions, or on very large monitors. Versions Comments A sharp looking, vanilla styled tileset that strives to strike a good balance between nice, attractive graphics, while avoiding graphical oddities. I find the cumulative differences from the ASCII add to the game. Feel free to leave me a note. This has turned into a [2], and includes alternate walls, fonts, and racial graphics.

Title Oreslam_1920x1200_20x20.png Author Yayo Dated 2009-09-12 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1920×1200 Versions Comments Name: Yayo's Oreslam; Just like the previous one, this tileset is named according to the dwarf language: or-es-lam means "Large Clear Stone". I decided to create this tileset to fit my usual screen resolution (1920x1200). I tried giving it a clean look. To use it in windowed mode try these settings in the init file: WINDOWEDX:1900, WINDOWEDY:1160, GRID:95:58.

yayo's Oreslam Tileset

Title Bisasam_20x20_mod_T.png Author yobbo Dated 2014-07-13 Tile Size 20×20 Resolution 1600×500 (80x25 grid size); 1600×1000 (80x50 grid size) Versions Comments A modified version of Bisasam's 20x20 tileset above. Walls were changed to make smooth curves and circles, broken arrows were changed to look broken, periods and commas were raised to center more closely on the tile, the seed tile was changed to help distinguish the current level and the one below, and a leaf / root tile was added for the new trees. There may have been a couple other minor changes, but the feel of the tileset should still be the same.

24×24

Title Curses square 24.png Author DragonDePlatino Dated 2015-06-01 Tile Size 24×24 Resolution 1920×600 Versions Comments A larger hand-drawn version of curses_square_16. This was created to be as faithful as possible to the original tileset while taking advantage of the larger resolution.

Title Bisasam_24x24.png Author Bisasam Dated 2010-01-01 Tile Size 24×24 Resolution 1920×600 (80x25 grid size); 1920×1200 (80x50 grid size) Versions Comments Inspired by the Terminus24 tileset, I created this square 24x24 tileset. Almost all symbols have been redrawn antialiased; so a DF version supporting transparent PNGs must be used. In order to use unscaled tiles, horizontal resolution must be at least 1920.

Title Nagidal24x24shade.png Author Nagidal Dated 2012-06-07 Tile Size 24×24 Resolution 1920×600 (80×25 grid size); 1920×1080 (80×45 grid size) Versions Comments I love the original curses_640x300, but could not find anything like it for full HD gameplay, so I made this. There is also a non-shaded version, non-shaded bearded version, and shaded and bearded version. For further info see this forum thread.

Nagidal's 24×24 tileset

Title Runeset_24x24.png Author monkeyfritz Dated 2018-3-23 Tile Size 24×24 Resolution 384×384 Versions Comments Runeset is an RSCII (Runic Standard Code for Information Interchange) font pack for Dwarf Fortress. Much more dwarfy than that American standards stuff. Best used with Runeset Mapmaker or Runeset color schemes.

Runeset Maps Runeset Example

32×32

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Title Runeset_32x32.png Author monkeyfritz Dated 2018-3-23 Tile Size 32×32 Resolution 512×512 Versions Comments Runeset is an RSCII (Runic Standard Code for Information Interchange) font pack for Dwarf Fortress. Much more dwarfy than that American standards stuff. Best used with Runeset Mapmaker or Runeset color schemes.

Runeset Maps Runeset Example

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Title Sir_Henry's_32x32.png Author Sir Henry Dated 2009-8-19 Tile Size 32×32 Resolution 2560×800 Versions Comments Recently I learned of a monitor displaying 2560 pixels horizontally, and I decided it needed a tileset to put to use. Taking the tileset I use (Kelora 16x16 diagonal) and doubling it, I was able to get a decent tileset. Smoothing the edges, and redoing some glyphs to get a better look (or just messing up some to bad to fix), I was able to achieve this.

48×48

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Title RDE_vector_48x48.png Author RedDeadElite Dated 2021-04-21 Tile Size 48×48 Resolution 3840×1200 Versions Comments A render of a vectorized version of RDE_8x8, with ASCII smileys substituting bearded dwarves. Original vector image and additional renders available at the DF File Depot.

64×64

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Title hack_square_64x64.png Author Taywee Dated 2016-06-21 Tile Size 64×64 Resolution 1024×1024 Versions Comments Built this from the fantastic Hack font, as I have a high-dpi monitor and wanted a good-looking text tileset of a decent resolution.

Square tilesets for edited raws

If you cannot find the altered raws of a tileset for your version of Dwarf Fortress have a look at the Raw tile selector tool.

These tilesets require modified raws to work properly. Specifically, the tile numbers assigned to some objects (critters, stones, plants) need to be changed and accented characters usually need to be removed from all languages.

8×8

Title Crazy 8x8s.png Author PigtailLlama Dated 2012-6-14 Tile Size 8×8 Resolution 640×200 or 640×400 Versions Comments They're a collaboration of 8x8 tiles I made, in the standard monotone style - They're great if you want to give your game a bit of a Commodore 64 feel to it, or if you're tired of vanilla dimensions. You also get a boatload of extra tiles to customize and personalize your own set! See Forum Thread for download and installation details.

PigtailLlama's Crazy 8x8s tileset

12×12

Title Jolly12x12.png Author Alexander Ocias Dated 2012-3-11 Tile Size 12×12 (also available in 9×12) Resolution 1024×768 Versions Comments Dwarf Fortress looks too serious and gritty, especially when it's filled with so much fun, ☼Fun☼ and comedy. There are four main handy-dandy aspects of this mod: Injecting some more personality and brightness into the visuals; Making important stuff easier to see, smoothing over unimportant things (9x12 or 12x12 ASCII!); Delicious icon :D See Official Forum Page for download and installation details.

Jolly Bastion screenshot

Title Grim Fortress sample tileset.png Author Lightrow Dated 2013-2-3 Tile Size 12×12 (also available in 9×12 Resolution 1024×768 Versions Comments I always liked the simplicity and feeling of ASCII tilesets but at the same time i really missed solid backgrounds and some interesting tiles from graphical tilesets. So my first try was to apply a solid background to all tiles of Talryth square tileset ( except few ones ), but it came out looking like a bunch of vermins swimming in a goblin's vomit... anyway i tried further and began to experiment with different base tilesets and finally made my own, using elements from tilesets of other authors ( mainly Tocky's one, big thanks to him! ). Then i have spotted Alexander's Jolly Bastion and took some ideas from him ( big thanks to Alexander too! ) like sky tiles and color. Then i applied Lee's Natural Color Scheme with modified "BLACK" value and here it is! Grim Fortress. It is pretty dark, kinda foggy and i think the name "Grim Fortress" fits well. See Official Forum Page for download and installation details.

16×16

Title Belal_Smooth_Walls.png Author Belal Dated 2009-1-9 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Based on the Mike Mayday tileset and using angled smoothed walls as in Dorten's Tileset. I like the look of the walls for doing near circular or honeycomb layouts. Example Fort

Title DarkondDigsDeeper_16x16.png Author Darkond2100 Dated 2010-3-6 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments I like Dig Dwarfier, but I don't like their tileset so much. I fused DigDeeperNEW_16x16 with Aesomatica_16x16 to make this. I just took what I liked and put it in. I hope that others like it too! This will work with Dig Dwarfier v0.85, I am not yet aware of whether or not it will work with Dig Deeper put into vanilla.

Title Gold Plated Author DrD_AVEL Dated 2010-Jun-17 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Gold Plated is updated. Improvements complete. Some tiles were redrawn and corrected. This tileset contains the best graphic tiles (in my opinion) that were collected from many other tilesets and other games; I took Lemunde's tileset as a basis (thanx a lot, Lemunde). Some of tiles were drawn by me. Many tiles were reworked and improved with some additional colours. I hope you enjoy with this tiles. ;) Graphical version of DF2010 v0.31.08 with Gold Plated tileset Discussion of this tileset is here

Presentation of Gold Plated (v.1) Text preview(v.1)

Title Gold Plated (bmp-version) Author DrD_AVEL Dated 2010-Apr-02 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments Gold Plated is redrawn to magenta BMP. So you can use it with versions of DF2010, that don't understand .png (v31.01). This is a preliminary version for DF2010, but it works well. Don't forget to convert this image to .bmp before use in new version. Enjoy! ;)

Preview of Gold Plated (bmp-version)

Title Synergy.png Author Dvorovic Dated 2010-10-8 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Tileset based on DrD_AVEL's, Phoebus', Ironhand's projects. Download Demo Fortress Map on the DFMA

Title Flying_Mage_square_16x16.png Author Flying Mage Dated 2008-4-12 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A 16×16 tileset based on several other tilesets by various authors. I did some changes because I like some things in different ways, but the base for tileset was made by another users and for this I thankful. List of major and minor changes you can see below. And I hope you'll enjoy this. There is some tiles I really proud of :) Major changes Minor changes Some rough/smoothed/engraved stone improvement

Title Hermano.png Author hermano Dated 2010-2-6 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 native. Versions Comments A tileset with colored backgrounds that keeps texts readable. It uses tiles from belal and ranting rodent. A Package for 0.31.16 (df2010) can be downloaded here. The altered raws for 40d# can be downloaded here.

example

Title 16x16_isenhertz_v2.png Author Isenhertz Dated 2008-7-14 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Impressed with the genius of using sprites as tiles, I cobbled together this tileset of my own. It uses Super Foul Egg's superb font as a base, with several sprites also found in other users' sets. Because a lot of letters are used for graphics, I suggest that you remove accented letters from names with this set. I also suggest you shift some items to other icons, such as the coniferous trees (change Pine, Cedar, Larch from 024 to 147), the turtle (change 15 to 151), and Quarry Bush leaves (change from 006 to 003). V2 now with new graphics for walls and liquids, as well as some other tweaks here and there and a first attempt at using dual-color sprites using a cyan base instead of simple greyscale. (Right now implemented for beds, wood and statues.) V1 can still be found here.

Isenhertz's tileset in action.

Title Lemunde_16x16.png Author Lemunde Dated 2010-6-11 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This is a modified version of Mike Mayday's/Herrbdog's tileset. It has a more textured feel to the walls and makes heavy use of the new transparency features to make some of the tiles a little more dynamic. You can view a preview map here. I recommend changing the sky settings in the init.txt file to [SKY:249:1:0:0] for a more natural look. Update June 11, 2010: Updated to work with the 31.xx versions of Mike Mayday's set. It will probably not look right using it with vanilla Dwarf Fortress.

Lemunde's Tileset.

Title DwarfletterGothic.PNG Author LordZorinthrox Dated 2009-7-20 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments [http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1205

Dwarfletter - Stockpile

Title Martin_16x16.png Author Martin Dated 2009-8-8 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This is a 16x16 tileset based on Redjack and Flying Mage sets (and possible tiles taken from others that I've since lost track of - apologies). Some tiles are original or have been tweaked, mainly to provide a much more subtle background than most. A completely new character set is used to improve legibility, tweaked and anti-aliased for dark backgrounds. Download Demo fortress at DFMA

Title Phoebus_16x16.png Author Phoebus Dated 2011-04-04 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments For more information, and to download the full package, see the thread on the official forums: Phoebus' Graphic Set

Title Phssthpok_16x16.png Author Phssthpok Dated 2010-03-07 Tile Size 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 Resolution 2560×800 Versions Comments A high resolution tileset with a focus on readable text, simple shaded shapes, and plenty of negative space. Uses PNG transparency features in 40d16 and newer. Requires RantingRodent's edited raws. 32x32 version 24x24 version 16x16 version Sample Fortress

Title SL_square_16x16.png Author User:SL Dated 2008-8-3 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments (Requires a download, not just the image) Art based on Flying Mage's, Guybrush's, and previous tilesets in that lineage. Uses ModBase to relocate relocatable art and de-accentify certain accented letters to reduce graphical bizarreness while still improving some art. Forum Thread Download Demo Fortress Map on the DFMA

Title Autonomous_Font.png Author Spreggo Dated 2009-2-2 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Started off inspired by Belal's diagonal support, and ended up doing almost every tile from scratch. Added different tiles for each type of stone, and new ones for ore, but the matgloss files need to be edited for that functionality(see image details).

The Autonomous Font in action.

Title Moons_square_16x16.PNG Author The-Moon Dated 2008-3-24 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments Edited Character set of mikemayday and Jackard

Title tigrex3d.PNG Author Tigrex Dated 2009-2-22 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This is my tileset, modified from Dorten's 2d diagonal wall set. It incorporates many original creations of mine, and I hope you like it.

Title tigrex3drunes.PNG Author Tigrex Dated 2009-4-10 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments This is a modification of the above, that takes advantage of Norse runes for a more authentic Dwarven experience. CAUTION! This tileset has little practical value, and may induce myopia, blindness, or death.

Title Tims_16x16.png Author Timmeh Dated 2009-8-12 Tile Size 16×16 Resolution 1280×400 Versions Comments A tileset using heavily modified versions of the diagonal walls from Belal's set, a modified version of the floor from Spreggo's set, most of the furniture and objects are from Flying Mage's set, and some various other bits and pieces from other sets. Replaces the black box that normally surrounds the walls with a copy of the floor tile. Example Fort

Non-Square Tilesets

1×1.1875

Title analfabetico_80x60.png Author Fitmoos Dated 2021-01-01 Tile Size 1×1.1875 Resolution 80x60 (at 80x50 window size) Versions Comments Based on the idea of Monoscii, this is a blank tileset, with an analphabetic aspect ratio. See #Analfabetico_640x300.png for a large version as well.

4×6

Title Lord-Nightmare-Terminal-4x6.png Author Lord Nightmare/Microsoft Dated 2008-1-27 Tile Size 4×6 Resolution 320×150 Versions Comments A DF conversion of the 4x6 variant of Microsoft's 'Terminal' Font. Note that I have left the font entirely alone other than converting it, so several glyphs are indistinguishable from one another!

Title Zaratustra_custom_4x6.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 4×6 Resolution 320×150 Versions Comments

Zaratustra's 4x6

5×6

Title Zaratustra_custom_5x6.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 5×6 Resolution 400×150, 800×300, 800×600 Versions Comments

Zaratustra's 5x6

6×8

Title Ti84.png Author Agm Dated 2018-01-12 Tile Size 6×8 Resolution 480×200, 960×400, 1152×864 Versions Comments Based on Texas Instruments graphing calculators TI83/TI84/+. Color scheme Inverted (dark) color scheme)

6x8 tileset based on the TI84 graphing calculator.

Title Font6x8.png Author Thief^ Dated 2011-04-05 Tile Size 6×8 Resolution 480×200, 960×400, 1152×864 Versions Comments A 6x8 tileset I originally created for an LCD electronics project, expanded to extended ASCII for DF. Example

6×9

Title Curses6x9.png Author Madk Dated 2010-6-21 Tile Size 6×9 Resolution 480×225 Versions Comments Check the original thread for more info.

6×10

Title Bedstead-10-df.png Author Ben Harris Dated 2013-11-24, updated 2020-03-29 Tile Size 6×10 Resolution 480×250 Versions Comments This is generated from my font Bedstead, which in turn is based on the Mullard SAA5050 teletext character generator, with lots of extra glyphs of my own design. There is a larger version below.

8×12

Title Andux_cp866ish.png Author Andux Dated 2011-05-03 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×480 Versions Comments A CP866-based version of the default curses_640x300 tileset. Note that characters 240-255 were not all updated, in order to preserve tiles required by hard-coded stuff.

Title Andux_sleipnir_8x12_tf.png Author Andux Dated 2012-08-07 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×480 Versions Comments A modified version of the default curses_640x300 tileset, partly inspired by the font Loki by Marcus Sterz/FaceType.

Title DF+Tileset.png Author Coaldiamond Dated 2010-6-18 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×300 Versions Comments An update of Plac1d's tile set, now updated for DF2010. This tileset also presents an elegant solution for modifying the % tile to get good pumps, rocks, and meals. This tileset was made to serve three purposes; a) To always make text understandable, b) to make DF games more visually interesting, and c) to keep symbols simple so that the player can imagine multiple meanings for the same symbol. See the screencaps or just get the whole DF+graphics repack.

Title Analfabetico_640x300.png Author Fitmoos Dated 2021-01-01 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×300 Versions Comments Based on the idea of Monoscii, this is a blank tileset, with an analphabetic aspect ratio. See #analfabetico_80x60.png for a tiny version as well.

Title Kein_640x300.png Author Kein Dated 2008-8-9 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×300 Versions Comments Updated 08/09/09. Updated most characters, the biggest change is the 3d style walls. If you use my set I'd highly recommend Plac1d's character graphic set. My 640×300, everything completely shaded.

Kein's Tileset

Title Plac1d_640x300tileset.png Author Plac1d Dated 2008-3-13 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×300 Versions Comments A tweaked version of Tocky's 10×10 tileset converted to 8×12. Try using this with my graphics set! Download the .BMP

Plac1d's Tileset

Title Curses 640x300diag.png Author Taritus Dated 2009-03-23 Tile Size 8×12 Resolution 640×300 Versions Comments Yuppers. I requested it a long time ago when everyone else was requesting different sized square tilesets with diagonal walls, and nobody ever fulfilled the request. I decided, "Oh, it's not like I have some menial and huge English project that's due tomorrow to work on, I'm going to make that." And I did.--Taritus 20:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

8×14

Title MDA8x14.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×14 Resolution 640×350 Versions Comments The original IBM MDA character set, dumped from addresses 0x0000-0x0fff the 5788005 IBM Character Generator ROM. This font is as would be displayed on an EGA/VGA with the 9-pixel-width mode disabled. Best for a 64:35 aspect ratio. The required resolution is strange, so run fullscreen with BLACK_SPACE:YES and resolution at 640x480. The MDA card did not actually support displaying the font in 8x14, but ONLY 9x14 mode, see below. Theoretically, you CAN upload this font into EGA video memory though and use it.

Title EGA8x14.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×14 Resolution 640×350 Versions Comments The IBM EGA character set, dumped from the 6277356 IBM EGA BIOS ROM. This font is as would be displayed on an EGA/VGA with the 9-pixel-width mode disabled. Best for a 64:35 aspect ratio. The required resolution is strange, so run fullscreen with BLACK_SPACE:YES and resolution at 640x480. This font is different from the MDA version in that many characters are slightly narrower to avoid 'running into' each other, and many characters have been shifted slightly to the left. Thanks to Zaratustra for poking me into getting this done, and for related help.

Title CP850.png Author Tae/IBM Dated 2009-9-06 Tile Size 8×14 Resolution 640×350 Versions Comments Play the Dwarf Fortress game in CP 850.

Title Zaratustra_megazeux2.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×14 Resolution 640×350 Versions Comments EGA font with added Megazeux modifications.

8×15

Title Lord_Nightmare-Fixedsys-02.png Author Lord Nightmare/Microsoft Dated 2007-12-20 Tile Size 8×15 Resolution 640×375 Versions Comments v2.2 - (v1.0 is here) - Based on Microsoft's Fixedsys font (which dates back to Windows 1.0!), Many glyphs needed redoing by hand since they were absent from the font, since it is an 'ansi' character set and not a code-page 437 one like DF expects. v2.0 Based on Microsoft's Fixedsys font. Updated new glyphs to be more consistent with the Fixedsys style. - v2.1 - update a few more glyphs, namely the integral, the infinity symbol, and the spade, and a few others I'm forgetting. - v2.2 - update the club and spade, and the music notes - v2.3 - fix the fact that 0xF9 and 0xFA were inadvertently swapped.

8×16

Title VGA8x16.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM? Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 8×16 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments The original? IBM VGA 8x16 character set, (from http://madscientistroom.org/fpga/default-8x16-bram.html) as would be displayed on a VGA card with the 9-pixel-width disabled. Best for an 8:5 aspect ratio. The required resolution is strange, so run fullscreen with BLACK_SPACE:YES and resolution at 640x480. This rom has not yet been dumped from a real VGA card, and is coming from a secondary source, so it may be replaced later if I find the real font is different.

Title Lord_Nightmare-Fixedsys-03.png Author Lord Nightmare/Microsoft Dated 2007-12-20 Tile Size 8×16 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments v3.0 - changed font size to 8x16, altered glyphs to respect this. - v3.1 - fix the fact that 0xF9 and 0xFA were inadvertently swapped.

Title Acorntileset.png Author Xenomorph Dated 2008-8-9 Tile Size 8×16 Resolution 640×400 Versions Comments This is the tileset used by Acorn computers, starting with the BBC Micro. This version is as it would have appeared in 80-column modes (albeit adapted to CP437). Download the BMP.

9×12

Title Yoshis_island.png Author Nobbins Dated 2011-03-20 Tile Size 9×12 Resolution 720×300, 720×600 (non-recommended) Versions Comments Heavily based on the text style from Yoshi's Island, with most letters being direct copies].

9×14

Title MDA9x14.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 9×14 Resolution 720×350 Versions Comments The original IBM MDA character set, dumped from addresses 0x0000-0x0fff the 5788005 IBM Character Generator ROM. This font is as would be displayed on a real MDA card (use a black/dkgreen/ltgreen palette for full monochrome effect) or on an EGA/VGA card with the 9-pixel-width mode enabled. Best for a 72:35 aspect ratio. The required resolution is strange, so run fullscreen with BLACK_SPACE:YES and resolution at 720x480.

Title EGA9x14.png Author Lord Nightmare/IBM Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 9×14 Resolution 720×350 Versions Comments The IBM EGA character set, dumped from the 6277356 IBM EGA BIOS ROM. This font is as would be displayed on an EGA/VGA with the 9-pixel-width mode enabled. Best for a 72:35 aspect ratio. The required resolution is strange, so run fullscreen with BLACK_SPACE:YES and resolution at 640x480. This font is actually different from the 8x14 version in that 20 characters have been replaced with the original MDA wide versions. These 'extra' wide characters are sandwiched in between the end of the 8x14 and beginning of the 8×8 font in the EGA BIOS ROM. The changed characters, in ASCII order, are: arrow-left-and-right, '"', '+', '-', 'M', 'T', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 'm', 'v', 'w', 'ae', cent sign, yen, peseta, plus-minus, and division sign. Other than these characters, all characters are the same, with rightmost-row duplicated on the C and D rows like the MDA (though I don't actually know if this is technically correct).

9×16

Title VGA9x16.png Author Quietust/IBM? Dated 2009-7-24 Tile Size 9×16 Resolution 720×400 Versions Comments The original? IBM VGA 9x16 character set, as would be displayed on a VGA card with the 9-pixel-width enabled.

10×12

Title Curses_800x600_shade.png Author Chinkeeyong Dated 2009-6-11 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×600 Versions Comments Partially inspired by Eagle of Fire's tiles, below. Essentially, this is the default tileset with a little bevel-style shading around the edges to make it look neater. Also, I fixed the accented 'e' tails to look closer to the standard 'e'.

Title eofshaded800x600pb9_f64ded.png Author Eagle of Fire Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×600 Versions Comments Designed for fullscreen. Inspired by Herrbdog's tileset, I created a shaded tileset targeting the default fullscreen 800x600 resolution. Basicaly, you have the exact same "curses" default tileset but with some shading done to the lower right of each letters and items. I've left alone everything which was related to mining or was meant to be plain, for example the smoothered tiles and the plain tiles in the demo. The reason behind that is that I didn't find much logic to have those graphics shaded as they could possibly connect on any direction on the screen, which would make the shading a little strange. Please note that this tileset is only a "beta". I might work on it again if there is enough people who like it and would like improvements. You can discuss the matter here.

Title Sleroux_800x300.png Author Sergius Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×300 Versions Comments Mostly vanilla tileset, dwarves have graphic from intro Movie, with some tweaks (for soldiers). I find it helpful for playing (instead of happy faces).

Title Kyzers_thin.png Author KyzerB Dated 2018-11-11 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 853×480, 1280×720, 1920×1080, 3840×2160; looks fine at most others, legible down to 240p (for the most part). Versions Comments Tileset designed to be a little easier to read and crisp. Very useful for lower resolutions, as it stays crisp down to 480p. 98% of the sprites have been changed, many received changes to their white-space, and the Dwarves have new and easily distinguishable sprites. Took about a week to make.

Kyzer's Thin Tileset

Title UncleSporky_curses_800x600.png Author UncleSporky Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×300 Versions Comments

UncleSporky Tileset UncleSporky Tileset

Title nice_curses_10x12.png Author Vidumec Dated 2013-01-31 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×300 Versions Comments Non-square version of my 12x12 tileset, based on Plac1d's one with some additional features and modifications.

Title Zaratustra_custom800x300ca3.png Author Zaratustra Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 10×12 Resolution 800×300, 800×600 (non-recommended) Versions Comments Has an appropriate object tileset for v0.23.130.23a (now outdated).

10×16

Title Lord_Nightmare_Freehand_10x16.png Author Lord Nightmare Dated 2007-12-23 Tile Size 10×16 Resolution 800×400 Versions Comments v1.0 - A character set drawn entirely in freehand on the tablet PC... with MINIMAL EDITING! Yes, its SUPPOSED to look like that. v1.1 - fixed character 0x02 background (filled smiley), filled in the card suits, minor touch up to the comma, fix black instead of magenta on the greyscale blocks and other tweaks to them, redrew the square block (was 'too clean' before) v1.1a - fixed spade by adding 1 pixel at tip so it doesn't look like another club

Freehand screenie... ooh, neat! Unreadable.

Title Lord_Nightmare_Freehand^2_10x16.png Author Lord Nightmare Dated 2008-3-28 Tile Size 10×16 Resolution 800×400 Versions Comments Freehand^2, v1.2 - A heavily edited version of Freehand, now hopefully less unreadable. V1.2 is the current version, see the image link changelog/older versions.

Freehand^2 screenie... ooh, neat! Readable. But ugly.

Title Vintl01.png Author Lord Nightmare/Victor-Sirius Dated 2007-12-19 Tile Size 10×16 Resolution 800×400 Versions Comments The Victor 9000/Sirius 1 computer character set, extracted from vintl01.chr.

12×20

Title Bedstead-20-df.png Author Ben Harris Dated 2013-11-24, updated 2020-03-29 Tile Size 12×20 Resolution 960×500 Versions Comments This is generated from my font Bedstead, which in turn is based on the Mullard SAA5050 teletext character generator, with lots of extra glyphs of my own design. There's a smaller version above.

14×16

Title Cooz_curses_14x16.png Author Anonymous/Cooz Dated 2017-05-12 Tile Size 14×16 Resolution 1120×400 Versions Comments I was looking for a narrower, more readable tileset with the aesthetic of Cooz's shaded square 16x16 one and didn't see one, so I made this from it. Like the original, it's just rounded ASCII characters with no special glyphs.

16×20

Title Shizzle_1280x500.png Author MasterShizzle Dated 2012-12-10 Tile Size 16×20 Resolution 1280×500 Versions Comments Couldn't find a 16x20 set, so I made my own: a good compromise between form and function. Completely original font adapted by hand from the standard curses with minimal shading, designed to run natively on HD monitors.

MasterShizzle's 16x20 tileset

16×24

Title MRC_1280x600.png Author Inquisitor Saturn Dated 2008-2-28 Tile Size 16×24 Resolution 1280×600 Versions Comments Designed for a double-sized window mode. Based on the default set, but more detailed and with a few custom characters. Good for those who want larger characters but enjoy the aesthetics of the default set.

Title Bmac smooth 16x24.png Author BMacZero Dated 2020-11-07 Tile Size 16×24 Resolution 1280×600 Versions Comments A smaller version of File:Kyzsmooth.png (24x32), with standard curses dwarf icons. Effectively, curses_640x300.png at 200% and smoothed.

16×32

Title Lumin_Graphical_1280x800.png Author Lumin Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 16×32 Resolution 1280×800 Versions Comments Ideas used from several others on this page. I've also added more detail and color to some objects.

20×32

Title Curses_24pt_cleartype_ThomModifications.PNG Author Herrbdog Dated 2007-10-30 Tile Size 20×32 Resolution 1600×800 Versions Comments Hi res won't slow the game as it doesn't use graphics, so if your monitor can display it, go for it, really... I strongly recommend to enable blackspace in the init: [BLACK_SPACE:YES] Made from the 24pts cleartype lucida console above (from winterwing). I added some stuff (some original, some ideas taken from others tilesets). Basically I try to avoid symbols that are often seen in menus, etc. The main "problem" is the bag, because its the male symbol, but it was too good looking to not put it ;) Hope you enjoy :) . . .

Title TerminusAliased_handedit_gal.png Author Shaja Dated 2008-3-27 Tile Size 20×32 Resolution 1600×800 Versions Comments Alphanumerics based on Dimitar Zhekov's Terminus font with light antialias shading added, walls and some symbols redrawn, others carried over from Thom's 20x32 tileset.

TerminusAliased text Terminus24 text

24×32

Title Terminus24.png Author Shaja Dated 2008-5-19 Tile Size 24×32 Resolution 1920×800 Versions Comments Revised version of my earlier Terminus 20x32 character set for 1920x800 display.

24×36

Title Curses_1920x900.png Author IBM, I think Dated 2017-02-28 Tile Size 24×36 Resolution 1920×900 (80×25 grid size); 1920×1080 (80×30 grid size, double for 4k) Versions Comments Original curses_640x300.png enlarged to 300%. Good for FullHD displays.

Title Kyzsmooth.png Author KyzerB Dated 2019-07-02 Tile Size 24×36 Resolution 1920×900 (80×25 grid size); 1920×1080 (80×30 grid size, double for 4k) Versions Comments Original curses_640x300.png enlarged to 300%, intricately smoothed for readability and a lack of chunkiness.

48×72

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Title Vector square 48x72.png Author DragonDePlatino Dated 2016-11-22 Tile Size 48×72 Resolution 3820×1920 (4k) Versions Comments A resolution-independent tileset based off of curses_640x300.bmp. The tileset was hand-vectorized in Inkscape then exported in multiple resolutions up to 4k. More information and resolutions can be found at the forum thread here.