Fonts | 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

phenomenon-by-alpha-force-g

the-happy-showpic-by-the-megabusters

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2024-09-24 22:08:15	32x32-fm	admin	Not much is known of fonts named like this. This one comes from an file archive named "paradogs.zip". And the file date is 1993-07-27 (so you know).
2024-09-24 00:18:39	bomb-jackt	admin	Bomb Jack cracktro came in 1990 but the font was used at least two years earlier.
2024-08-31 19:49:01	antorb2	admin	Different version seen in 3D Screen by Legacy of the Phaleon GigaDemo - https://demozoo.org/productions/168938/
2024-08-31 19:02:01	legacy	admin	I'ma assume Pixelkiller made this font.
2024-08-27 09:07:12	dba-mag-06	admin	This font could have been done by Bonus, Carnera, Duri-17, Exterminator, Rex, Roadwarrior, Shadowmaster, or Slimer - these were the graphicians of the project.
2024-06-26 20:10:59	pico8-custom-3	admin	This font has big and small letters swapped. There's a couple other fonts like that, though not that many.
2024-06-19 19:24:49	General discussion	admin	I've added a new tag – ?tag=lowercase for fonts having [all or majority of] minuscule/lowercase letters in lieu of uppercase letters.
2024-06-19 18:48:51	pico8-custom-1	admin	Similar to ?font=commodore128, this font has the lower- and upper-case swapped.
2024-06-13 01:00:09	memotech	admin	"Memotech were a peripheral maker who decided to get in on the action and produce their own machine in the 1984-1985 period that saw a lot of machines and failures. Despite some good specifications it never made a dent and its claim to fame being the computer in the movie Weird Science." —Damien Guard
2024-06-13 00:54:57	sinclairql	admin	"The short-lived Sinclair QL was Sir Clive’s attempt at getting into the business market but the corner cutting on the CPU (a Motorola 68008 – the 8-bit data bus version of the 68000) and storage (Microdrives consisting of loops of high-speed tape instead of disc) meant it wasn’t taken seriously. This was a shame as the operating system and software were advanced for its time." —Damien Guard