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

binary-stride-2-by-acrid-d

oreslam_1920x1200_20x20t

cherokee-vol-1-by-manitou-c

8-bit-pixel-d

cherokee-vol-1-by-manitou-wide-x

cherokee-vol-1-by-manitou-b

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2024-02-13 01:23:39	General discussion	bzt	Hi, FYI, I've added support for your BMF format to my font editor and converter. You have an amazing font collection here, I must admit it was a real nostalgia bomb, thank you so much! I've also linked your site in my documentation, if you'd like, you can add my repo under Font resources too: https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/scalable-font2 Cheers, bzt
2024-02-02 14:22:06	General discussion	admin	I added 100-something fonts out of the Playdate Arcade Fonts archive. Alas, most don't have many other characters than letters and digits, on the other hand few are as old as late 1970s.
2024-02-02 13:46:35	305b	admin	The original cyan font showed in the Dreamzone demo had 4 colors, this one has 10 colors.
2024-01-26 16:47:56	zuul_c06-17d	admin	The texture of this font taken from ?font=killing-game-show.
2024-01-26 16:33:19	zuul_c06-17c	admin	The texture of this font taken from ?font=cd004stax.
2024-01-26 16:15:35	zuul_c06-17b	admin	The texture of this font taken from ?font=disknet_big.
2024-01-18 17:55:05	16-16char3	admin	Like ?font=16-16char2 but uses color like the smaller font in Photon Storm+ Cracktro by Hotline - https://demozoo.org/productions/84103/
2024-01-17 18:50:10	General discussion	admin	8000 fonts
2024-01-17 18:49:36	zuul_c05f01	admin	The sources for this font are two pictures, one having letters A through X, and the second having XY.-?: The ?font=zuul-megafonts-compil has a different "YZ" and I think it didn't have the second picture so Y,Z letters were recycled.
2023-12-11 23:12:16	General discussion	admin	Now every initial letter (or digit) has at least 100 fonts.