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 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
2020-10-29 01:32:02	101	admin	Hmm.. just linked the Mathematica demo on DZ to this font and it seems the red colour is a bit off (https://media.demozoo.org/screens/s/2b/89/3cf4.31957.png )
2020-10-28 22:15:56	General discussion	admin	Added and linked all charsets from janeway.exotica.
2020-10-28 20:45:39	gepard15	admin	Added a link - "Powerfont I - nr 9 (Charset) by Monopoly" from janeway.exotica. Used in a "Newsflash" from Aug 1991. Now I've got doubts it from Gepardstudio (unless it is the same guy) from 1999.
2020-10-28 00:17:24	General discussion	admin	Currently checking and refilling descriptions of the first 320 Guldkrans' font GIF pictures, he then gave, into fonts' titles.
2020-10-27 22:06:12	320	admin	Oh. This font has also the green and blue version - https://media.demozoo.org/screens/s/b4/99/294e.152310.png Gonna add those.
2020-10-27 21:50:37	doc	admin	Either this one of "015" used in the ATF Megademo by Alexander the Great - https://demozoo.org/productions/64688/
2020-10-27 21:35:56	080	admin	Daniel Guldkrans' original comment - description: ?. This font looks similar to the one that is in the "Overdrive" mainmenu but it isn't. artist: Wire from Effect. He told me that is was someone in Overlanders that drew it.
2020-10-27 20:03:10	138	Zbeng	Appears in Ripped-Off menus #98 and #128. In both, Desire of ACF is credited for coding the menu for Ripped-Off. I guess it safe to assume that Desire is also responsible for the font. There was another reason for which I thought the font author is Desire (or Bilbo of Ripped-Off). If you look at the '&' character, it is spelled like a squashed 'AND'. It has much resemblance to 'AND' appearances in other Desire/Bilbo fonts. References: Supporting Desire: https://demozoo.org/productions/74679/ https://demozoo.org/productions/74679/info/8047/ https://demozoo.org/productions/74709/ https://demozoo.org/graphics/281025/ https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=acf https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=cd068 https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=011_32 Supporting Bilbo: https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=cd068 https://demozoo.org/productions/74649/ https://demozoo.org/productions/74649/info/7620/ https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=cd037 https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=cd039
2020-10-27 15:24:58	138	admin	Original Daniel Duldkrans' description to the GIF is empty and as author is "someone from Alien Cracking Formation". So I'll assume it was done by ACF. p.s. edited the title
2020-10-27 15:21:08	011	admin	This resembles the ÖMV logo to me a bit.