Fonts | Bytemap Fonts

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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

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Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2020-10-25 16:43:19	ringtall	admin	This font appears for just a second in the intro of the game. Characters besides those in the title recycled by crs/broncs.
2020-10-25 15:18:05	juxtaposition	admin	Letter "X" is in red in the original; here I conformed it to the rest.
2020-10-25 15:12:44	onebig2	admin	Like "onebig" but I made the darkest color inside letters opaque.
2020-10-25 13:59:58	fonts80	admin	In the "Choice of Gods" demo the font appears in gray and yellow (as stored here) and also just in gray.
2020-10-25 02:38:07	ucm7c	admin	Letters besides those in "UNDERCOVER ISSUE VII" recycled by crs/broncs.
2020-10-24 22:22:49	texter	admin	Oh, that happens to be an editor. And the screenshot is likely an example of a font from by someone else...
2020-10-24 22:15:02	bard	admin	Looks like the "Black Chancery" font - https://www.dafont.com/black-chancery.font
2020-10-24 19:38:31	charts1	admin	There are some mildly interesting differences between "162" and "charts1". https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=162&font2=charts1 I'm thinking of keeping both of them. I made "charts1" non-proportional (e.g. just a small gap left and right from "I", etc.), just to keep this alternative version around.
2020-10-24 19:29:46	162	admin	There are some minor differences between "162" and "charts1". https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=162&font2=charts1 I'm thinking of keeping both of them.
2020-10-24 19:04:03	173	admin	Daniel Guldkrans' description: "Backlash from novagenics. The original font is in gold - not silver like this one."