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!

Recently added fonts

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2020-09-17 17:38:46	knight-bug	admin	Now seeing it, this might be the exact duplicate of the "mot" font.
2020-09-17 00:26:11	d-bug	admin	kay. (phew)
2020-09-16 23:43:19	d-bug	Zbeng	Na... This is why I used the comment.
2020-09-16 23:28:26	d-bug	admin	Wow, I counted 65 links! Should I add all o'them?
2020-09-16 16:53:31	ambition-crystalic	admin	Letters other than Z,E,A,L drawn by crs/broncs.
2020-09-16 09:33:52	d-bug	Zbeng	This was used extesively by D-BUG. External links: https://demozoo.org/productions/9780/ https://demozoo.org/productions/9789/ https://demozoo.org/productions/9787/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68844/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68845/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68850/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68852/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68857/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68858/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68859/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68860/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68861/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68862/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68863/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68864/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68895/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68897/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68900/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68906/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68907/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68908/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68911/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68912/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68913/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68915/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68916/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68919/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68940/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68941/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68942/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68943/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68944/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68984/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68990/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68992/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68993/ https://demozoo.org/productions/68994/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69000/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69003/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69020/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69021/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69023/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69024/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69026/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69027/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69028/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69033/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69041/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69042/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69083/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69084/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69087/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69088/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69089/ https://demozoo.org/productions/195159/ https://demozoo.org/productions/195162/ https://demozoo.org/productions/195163/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69117/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69118/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69119/ https://demozoo.org/productions/195164/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69120/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69126/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69127/ https://demozoo.org/productions/69128/
2020-09-16 06:36:43	scxmirror	admin	Looks like "inc_bubble-blue", with 50% width and added mirror effect.
2020-09-16 03:33:15	General discussion	admin	2050 fonts (before the duplicate reduction), each letter or digit at least dozen fonts each.
2020-09-14 16:17:57	General discussion	Zbeng	Very Good idea. This will enable to keep better attributes from duplicates. The hash function can be useful there (to apply on all characters instead of just 'A') Consider also comparing palettes (may be ordered differently in duplicates)
2020-09-14 13:44:41	General discussion	admin	I'm thinking of writing a page to compare two fonts (characters, their parameters, bitmaps) to address quite a few of potentially duplicate fonts.