chrissx Media

We plan to update fonts.chrissx.de after 2026-09-20. The pull request will add new font sources for Minecraft.

The main new source is Mojangles (also known as Minecraft Seven) from minecraftplot.com. It looks almost the same as the current font, but some glyph shapes differ slightly and more closely match those used in the game. It also contains even fewer glyphs.

Compare both sources directly in your browser:

* The old files fail Chromium and Firefox’s OpenType Sanitizer (OTS): their cmap maps U+FFFF to glyph id 110, but the font only contains glyphs 0-109, so OTS rejects the whole file (Range glyph reference too high (110 > 109)) and the @font-face silently falls back. Safari has no such sanitizer and renders the old font fine, as do copies installed locally and referenced via local(), which are used without re-validation.

Browsers will first look for the locally installed fonts Minecraft Seven v2, Minecraft Seven, and Mojangles, all of which are new additions, followed by Minecraft. They will then try the new Mojangles OpenType file. The existing EOT, WOFF2, and TTF files will remain as fallback sources.

Licensing

The old source is Minecraft Regular 1.0 by Pwnage_Block from 2011 and lists its license as CC BY-SA 3.0. The new source is Mojangles Regular by olek molek from 2022 and is offered under the FontStruct Non-Commercial License. The licensing situation around the Minecraft font has always been uncertain, so anyone using it should check the original sources and their license terms.

We’d really like to use the “official” source (links to woff2; woff, ttf, eot also available), but it doesn’t have CORS headers and redistributing the files would likely violate their Usage Guidelines.

Character coverage

The new font contains only space, comma, period, digits, and ASCII letters. Compared with the old font, 44 code points are missing, including common punctuation and several Unicode characters, e.g. !”#$%&’()*+-/:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~

The old font files remaining in the @font-face src list do not provide per-character fallback. Missing characters will instead fall back to the next item in your font-family. Unsupported characters may therefore be rendered in a different font.

Bold and italic behavior

Both the old and new files are Regular fonts. The new local source order can nevertheless resolve bold and italic contexts differently, either by finding locally installed variants or by causing the browser to synthesize a style. This can cause visual regressions, especially with headings.

This is why cmdesigns 0.1.9 explicitly adds font-weight: 400 to the CMText component. Consumers that use the Minecraft font should consider explicitly setting font-weight to avoid surprises.