Fonts | Bytemap Fonts

Welcome

This site gathers bitmap/bytemap fonts, saved and extracted mostly from games and demoscene, drawn and pixelated by various graphicians and artists, lost and forgotten in time.

You can find hundreds upon hundreds of those fonts here, either as pictures or, better yet, in a file format that allows basic (macro)typography. Feel free to browse the list, filtered either by initial letter of the font name (above right) or more specifically (via form above, left).

In closer look

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A font is a set of characters. Bitmap is a map of bits (picture). A bitmap font is a set of pictures as its proprietary characters.

We can further distinguish pixelated/image fonts with just two colours (black or white, foreground or background) and fonts drawn with more than one colour. Let's call these bytemap fonts.

The fonts published here are of several origins:

pictures gathered by Daniel Guldkrans
font art from the archive of Carsten Cumbrowski
bytemap fonts of the 8-bit scene – mostly Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum
bytemap fonts of the 16-bit scene – mostly Atari ST and Amiga
other fonts from various sources (old demos, intros, etc.) converted by me

Wherever I could get a grip of the name of the author, I mentioned them in the file description. A lot of these fonts are many years old, some even decades. Font that were part of some games are now so called abandonware. I'm going to assume in good faith that all bitmap fonts shown here are freeware.

If you happen to be an author of a certain font presented here that you do not wish to be available, then feel free to contact me and I will make quick amendments to remove it from this website.

Similarly, if you happen to find an error in the description of any font, please, tell me what to fix in the discussion below each font.

Thanks in advance!

What's in it for me?

Let this site be helpful to you if:

you are a graphic designer seeking for some cool bitmap fonts
you are a programmer and would like to implement the BMF file-format
you'd like to have a pic of your text drawn by one of the fonts

Enjoy!

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Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2020-07-19 11:08:17	waveform	admin	Note: the range of the "sizeOver" attribute (which is 8-bit, signed integer of range -128..+127) does not suffice here - sizeOver should rather be around -143 but that cannot be codified in 7 bits.
2020-07-19 11:04:51	noisy	admin	Note: the range of the "sizeOver" attribute (which is 8-bit, signed integer of range -128..+127) does not suffice here - sizeOver should rather be around -159 but that cannot be codified in 7 bits.
2020-07-19 11:02:06	cpx2	admin	Just a note: the range of the "sizeOver" attribute (which is 8-bit, signed integer of range -128..+127) does not suffice here - sizeOver should rather be -158 but that cannot be codified in 7 bits.
2020-07-19 10:54:29	General discussion	admin	@Chandra: See the "bmfed.zip" link at https://bmf.php5.cz/?page=support I'm affraid, though, You'll have to use the DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) - en MS-DOS emulator, since the editor is compiled in MS-DOS. As of the copyright issue, I kind of mention it in the preface... yes and no - most of the fonts are 10, 20, 30 years old and belong to the so called "abandonware" category. The following is no legal advice of mine but - if you give credit (ie. treat it under the Creative Commons-Attribution license) you should be o.k., generally speaking.
2020-07-18 19:54:05	105	zbeng	Appears in S.U.C.C.E.S.S. by The Lost Boys: https://demozoo.org/productions/72288/
2020-07-18 19:53:06	zuul	admin	Featured in Megafonts Compil 05 by Zuul - https://demozoo.org/productions/78860/
2020-07-18 19:46:00	024b	admin	Featured in Megafonts Compil 08 by Zuul - https://demozoo.org/productions/78862/
2020-07-18 19:42:52	241	admin	Featured in Megafonts compil 10 by Zuul - https://demozoo.org/productions/78864/
2020-07-18 19:03:49	gepard07	zbeng	This font seems to be based on https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=310 At least 'I' is different
2020-07-18 14:12:57	wayne3d	zbeng	Looks like an exact duplicate of https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=qbic32 Maybe move all relevant info there?