#bitmapfont — Public Fediverse posts

discmaster has this quite cute PNG rendering of a BDF file (Bitmap Distribution File). Like this one, which is Sun Arioso as shipped with OpenOffice,
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/14464/CD_Magazyn_EXEC_nr_5.iso/Linux/PPC/OpenOffice/oo609FU_installer.tar.gz/oo609FU_installer.tar/installer/f_0217/ariob20.bdf

I can't work out what program it is using, and if it is dexvert, i can't find which part. Does anyone know?

#discmaster #bitmapFont #askfedi

Spritemap from the game Crossfire (i "think" the 1992 Gauntlet-like?). As a bitmap font with 24x24 tiles. https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/38515/Linux_Games_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_July_1999.iso/tgz/glibc-sources/crossfire-0.94.2-1.src.tar.gz/crossfire-0.94.2-1.src.tar/crossfire-0.94.2.tar.gz/crossfire-0.94.2.tar/crossfire-0.94.2/lib/crossfire.bdf

There are over 3000 tiles; this is just a selection.

#PixelArt #BitmapFont

[discmaster is incredible]

Bitmap fonts, eh? What's your favourite font format? Yes, i know about TrueType (though examples would be welcome), Adobe BDF, Windows FON (a bit), PSF (a bit), Plan 9.

Please RT.
#BitmapFont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 25

Pixelbricks

I've done a few top-heavy or bottom-heavy fonts, and even some squared off... how about a chaotic squared-off heavy font that just goes where it wants and does it condensed for good measure.

Welcome Pixelbricks!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Pixelbricks.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 24

The Untouchables

Ocean gave us this 1920s prohibition romp based on the star-studded movie of the same name in 1989.

Interesting for us are the two art deco fonts - this one being the 8x8 that uses every available pixel.

I've added a lower-case in the same style and created a "Revised" version that applies the same treatment to the numerics & symbols.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/The+Untouchables.zip

Now that other gorgeous 16x16 font...

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 23

NLQ

A fresh new serif font that pushes to the edges of the bounding box available in 4 styles - regular, italic, bold and small.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/NLQ.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 22

Slaine

Martech Games' 1987 release takes the 2000 AD comic character Slaine on a tricky-to-play atmospheric adventure.

The game actually features three fonts - a sharp digital one on the title screen, a small one for dialog and an old-style one used for the main interface which I've converted here.

The same in-game fonts were used on the CPC, C64 and ZX versions.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Slaine.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 21

ZX Space Highway

Justin Penner's Space Highway is an great typeface that encapsulates the feel of old sci-fi covers and posters.

While Justin has made pixel fonts this one was fully scalable and just itching for an 8x8 pixel adaptation in my eyes... and so I made it.

You can find the real Space Highway and other cool free typefaces in Justin's 36 Days of Type at https://justinpenner.ca/projects/36-days-of-fonts/

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/ZX%20Space%20Highway.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 20

Street Rod 2

This 1991 DOS and Amiga game sees you attempting to acquire and then modify 1960s street hot rods and race them with plenty of engine tuning and under-the-hoot changes.

The font is a clean, easy-to-read one that is a little unusual in that it is both narrow and features a light touch of serifs for a bit of class.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Street%20Rod%202.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 19

Got Soul

The pull between consistency and individual glyph flair in a typeface is a difficult balance to get right. I have a tendency to come up with a "style" for a font and then stick to it rigidly throughout the entire character set.

Got Soul embraces bold and then lets each glyph breathe life into its pixels whether that's wider or narrower, curvy or straight, while still feeling cohesive.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Got%20Soul.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 18

Dan Dare

A regular strip in British comic The Eagle, this brave "Pilot of the Future" is usually battling evil Mekon - a green alien with a giant head.

The game involves exploring a space station, opening doors, battling enemies and solving puzzles.

Importantly for us is the dashing comic-book style font which I've extended here with small-caps for the lower-case and additional symbols.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Dan%20Dare.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 17

Crossed

I've tried variants of this a few times - the idea of lines and curves that overshoot like sticks. A previous one was called Bamboo but I unpublished it not long after as it's just had to get right.

This one I feel came off a bit better than that. Mostly readable with a lot of edge and flair - use sparingly!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Crossed.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 16

Stop

My first encounter with this typeface was probably Datel (of Action Replay fame) ads in Crash and Your Sinclair but it actually goes back to 1970 and was really made popular by Letraset.

I've done a couple of Stop-like fonts (including one called Datel Tribute) before but this one, recovered from GEOS floppies by way of a PDF, is a much more faithful adaptation!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Stop.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 15

ForwardSlash

A very simple and clean oblique that sacrifices descenders for that maximum 8-pixel height.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/ForwardSlash.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 14

Typewriter

Another lost gem found among the sectors of floppy discs for GEOS this American Typewriter inspired 8x8 oozes character and pushes the pixels to the very boundary of the box.

If you use this one at least an extra pixel or two of vertical space between rows would be advised!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Typewriter.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 13

Bubble 07

Agent Bubbles your mission, should you choose to accept it, is it infiltrate an 8-bit video game and assume the role of the main typeface.

An all-original 60s vibe fun typeface with a sneaky side.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Bubble%2007.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 12

The Muncher

Beam Software mostly remembered for The Hobbit and Way of the Exploding Fist but back in 1988 they also released a curious tie-in...

The Mucher is an arcade city-destroying romp featuring the T-Rex from ... The Chewits Adverts (a UK sweet/candy) .

The game was colorful and quite but importantly for us the Speccy version features a unique and on-point font!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/The%20Muncher%20ZX.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 11

Saucer

4/5 pixel wide gylphs allow 51 characters per line on a Speccy and unlike the 3/4 pixel width can still be readable.

4 pixels can be tricky for glyphs like I, T, W and M and I went for pure clarity with Area51 in 2021.

This time there's an alternate, weird, quirky and different take on getting into 4/5 pixel widths...

Screenshots are rendered here with 8x8 so don't do it justice.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Saucer.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 10

Helvetica9

This 9 point - presumably unofficial version - was found in Glenn Holmer's GEOS font catalog PDF likely from one of the many disks he generates that from. (There are also larger sizes but they don't fit in 8x8)

Obviously designed as proportional typeface the screenshots don't quite do it justice!

The FZX file included in the ZIP has a proportional variant.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Helvetica9.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 9

Magchrome

Typefaces with unusual blobs were early forms of character recognition by computers before decent OCR but that didn't stop type designers picking up the idea and using them however they felt for purely stylistic reasons.

This font takes that idea and combines it with the 80s chrome effect to come up with something a litle more unique!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Magchrome.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 8

Robocop Arcade

Data East's 1988 side-scrolling shoot-em-up had some reasonable home conversions but only the arcade featured this font (and a couple of others)

Stark, angular and a little rough it embodies the distopian corporate decay rather well and unusually (for an arcade font) includes lower-case!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Robocop%20Arcade.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 7

Expedition

Bold, adventurous, and up to the knees in mud this wellington-boot wearing font dares to go where other typefaces do not adorning a serif here and there with reckless abandon.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Expedition.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 6

Great Giana Sisters (C64)

Tempted by the success of Super Mario Bros Rainbow Arts comissioned Armin Gessert & Manfred Trenz to create a Mario-like game.

The result was Great Giana Sisters which although similar to Mario had different enemies, characters, maps & powerups.

It was not different enough for Nintendo...

I've added my own interpretation of a lower case to round it off again.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Great%20Giana%20Sisters.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 5

Clear Plan

A new attempt at providing a very clear, easy to read font in 8x8 pixels. Despite 33 prevous "Clean" fonts I've managed to come up with something I like here in both plain and a semi-bold.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Clear%20Plan.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 4

A Rock Star At My Hamster

Colin Jones' 1988 game see you take the role of a rock star manager trying to climb the charts.

With it's colorful graphics, cheeky puns and procedurally generated music it was easy to overlook the fun 8x8 comic font which was, unusually, actually used across all 5 platforms.

I've added lower case by way of small-caps based on the original for a more complete set.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Rock%20Star.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 3

Kilonova

An original, futuristic oblique with a daring x-height available in a regular and a variant that uses stress on the horizontals rather than the verticals to achieve a unique bolder look.

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Kilonova.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 2

Disney's Mulan (Gameboy)

This Gameboy game based on Disney's Mulan exudes character and the rough brush-font is gorgeous.

Originally only upper-case I extended this with my own lower-case attempt and missing symbols!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Mulan.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #pixelfont

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2025 Day 1

Day Out!

A new and original fun, bubbly, bold and top-heavy font for any kind of energetic and approachable game!

https://dl.damieng.com/fonts/zx-origins/Day%20Out.zip

#adventoffonts #bitmapfont #sinclair #pixelfont

working on #VariableComponent #Bangla #BitmapFont

Opened up some old Mac fonts in ResEdit and wonder who these guys are hiding in the late ASCII slots.
#PixelFont #BitmapFont #MacOS8

Opened up some old Mac fonts in ResEdit and wonder who these guys are hiding in the late ASCII slots.
#PixelFont #BitmapFont #MacOS8

Opened up some old Mac fonts in ResEdit and wonder who these guys are hiding in the late ASCII slots.
#PixelFont #BitmapFont #MacOS8

Opened up some old Mac fonts in ResEdit and wonder who these guys are hiding in the late ASCII slots.
#PixelFont #BitmapFont #MacOS8

Opened up some old Mac fonts in ResEdit and wonder who these guys are hiding in the late ASCII slots.
#PixelFont #BitmapFont #MacOS8

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Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

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Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

Apparently, someone crammed 69666 characters of Unifont 13.0.06 into BDF for u8g2 #font generation, so BDF evidently doesn't have that limit either, and upstream Unifont doesn't do this. Also, because of FontForge limits crashing when importing a lot of glyphs, evidently the BDF is custom on the u8g2 Github, but the problem is that it hasn't been updated to Unifont 15, so while Plane 1 is reduced two versions, Plane 0 is upgraded two versions, without going over 65535, ensuring better BDF compatibility, especially when doing low-level stuff (evidently not needed here). Then again, Minecraft uses .hex files in 1.20 to get around non-HarfBuzz TrueType limits. Also I can't run Unifont compilation utilities on any machine I've tried, so I'm stuck with what I've got.

Sometimes it's okay to be proud of what you've got.