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

barfpack-10---menu-by-network-b

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2020-12-02 16:13:12	282	admin	"010_16" (which was a duplicate of this font) deleted.
2020-12-02 04:42:08	drsatan	admin	Version of this font used in "Another Compilation by Alienation" - https://demozoo.org/productions/215360/
2020-12-01 20:19:11	millenium	admin	The font in the "Intro Compilation #02 by Blue Software" seems to have numerals in it also.
2020-12-01 18:56:30	140	admin	"001_32" (which was a duplicate of this font) deleted.
2020-12-01 16:13:04	antorb1	admin	Similar font appears in "Mad Vision #B" - http://stonish.net/Mad-Vision-90#st4
2020-12-01 16:11:07	menu-e	admin	"Remodelled" from ?font=menu-f by changing the principal purple color to blue and elongating the characters by few pixels.
2020-11-27 23:38:45	imp8_8	admin	The name might suggest this one is from Imperator but I'm not sure - only got the the picture named "IMP8_8.PNG".
2020-11-27 23:20:17	retrofut	admin	The bug located and fixed (hopefully).
2020-11-27 15:48:49	General discussion	admin	Each initial letter/digit now groups at least 20 fonts. Also pulled some statistics of number of fonts on the number of colors they use. The top 10 goes like this: 502 fonts having 3 colors (in most cases dark gray, light gray, and white) 395 fonts having 1 color 354 fonts having 7 colors 207 fonts having 15 colors 194 fonts having 4 colors 159 fonts having 31 colors 125 fonts having 6 colors 106 fonts having 5 colors 103 fonts having 14 colors 92 fonts having 8 colors P.S. In average the fonts have 10.0077 colors.
2020-11-26 18:22:50	hightech-b	admin	Like "hightech" but the inner black color is opaque.