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!

Recently added fonts

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Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2021-12-17 12:59:10	viewpoint-fm-towns	admin	Not exactly the same - the font in the title has some texture and sheen on it while this one is solid gray.
2021-12-17 12:57:35	viewpoint-fm-towns2	admin	Not exactly it - the font in the logo has some texture while here it's solid gray with some scanlines.
2021-12-16 08:08:09	7presidentists2	admin	New biggest font by file size. Not as big as ?font=cakeman, ?font=cpx2 or ?font=di-art but big and having most characters. ---- edit 2022-02-06: Now it is ?font=gerrymandering.
2021-12-15 14:16:29	dns_anker-2	admin	Any links on this one? Searching the name doesn't trigger a thing. The "DNS" hints to the Dynasty group, but no production of theirs seem to feature the font. ----- edit later: found it.
2021-12-12 04:58:32	General discussion	Malcolmunpap	Hello. And Bye.
2021-12-07 02:47:47	General discussion	admin	I made a simple experimental parametrical font generator (https://bmf.php5.cz/fontgen.php for anyone to try out). If interested, tell me what you think. edit 2021-12-15: vertical color fades added
2021-10-19 06:56:30	dragon	Franta	PMF
2021-10-17 01:24:01	vaporft	admin	I should level the letters. Edit 2021-12-23: done.
2021-10-11 19:50:58	General discussion	Davidbleah	Hello guys. And Bye. neversurrenderboys ;)
2021-09-29 16:50:58	General discussion	admin	Every initial letter/digit has now at least 50 fonts.