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We all know KaM has some nice raster fonts since year 1998.

Antiqua.fnt
Game.fnt
Grey.fnt
Metal.fnt
Mini.fnt
Outline.fnt

*duplicates omitted

Does anyone knows which fonts faces are these?
I was thinking about finding TTF sources of these fonts.

It will be very hard to find the original font family unless we have a font expert here.

All that I can say from my limited knowledge is, that it's not a 'standard' font. It was a fancy font. But which one I don't know. It's possible that they bought the font and it never surfaced anywhere else. On the other hand, some poorly designed letters like the 'G' or 'w' in metal and antiqua hint at a self-made font.

The font identifier says antiqua.fnt matches only one font - "Rialto". But it's obviously not Rialto. So the probability that the font is not available to the public is quite high.

I've looked around before, but never found anything like it. I conclude that Seigfried is correct in that it is "self-made."

I must say that I love KaM's font; though, so having it would be great. Love those Zs!

Many of the KaM fonts are multi-coloured (e.g. different shades of yellow and a black outline), which I believe most font formats (TTF included) don't support. In fact, I can't think of another place where I've seen fonts with multiple colors in each character (except special logos). So it could have been some kind of SVG or similar, or they could have all been hand made.

Font coloring is a minor thing of course. There's main typeface and then some effects applied (tint, outline, dropshadow). What I'm looking is that initial typeface, if there's a TTF source.

Calligrapher (http://fontzone.net/font-details/calligrapher-normal)
I've seen it in the city where I live, so I searched for it some time ago, but it wasn't easy.
Unfortunately it only contains english characters.

Regarding Calligrapher, I think it's based on the Merlin font which is used in the official manuals.

Possibly, There's even one I just found, and it is sold, but I don't find any difference.

Some fast checking revealed that Merlin was made in 1992 and Calligrapher in 1994. Calligrapher does seem to be pretty much identical to Merlin, quite weird if you ask me.
I actually added a bunch of missing international characters and the Cyrillic alphabet to Merlin myself so that I could make proper localized versions of the game manual. It's included in this archive.