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

collectors-dream-3-by-dazzle-big

stop-focken-fascism-opintro-by-brainstorm

bass-o-matic-by-crusaders-a

nice-little-intro-by-crusaders

bussimatkaintro0

precise-sad_d-s

index-88

extreme-reality-by-crusaders

yellow-edge-s

beyond-justice-by-dexion

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2023-01-14 18:09:45	General discussion	Joe Strout	Here's a screen shot of my conversion tool so far. Still need to add kern support (it currently can calculating kerning, but gives you no way to edit it). https://imgur.com/a/ASeecF7
2023-01-14 15:21:40	General discussion	Joe Strout	@admin: sorry for the late reply... conversion from TTF is still important to me. BMF is the only font support in Mini Micro, and people sometimes want to just draw nice readable text, using Noto Sans or whatever. I'll see about cleaning up my converter tool and releasing it somewhere, and I guess I'll go ahead and include conversion to/from this AngelCode BMFont format too. I'll be sure to let you know when it's posted (but it may be a while -- got too many irons in the fire right now!).
2023-01-12 01:25:03	4138906397_0dc616813b_o	admin	I took a liberty to replace the "-" character here, which, as the only one, was using a variety of other colors, not present anywhere else.
2022-12-04 01:21:49	General discussion	admin	The first line on their site says "This program will allow you to generate bitmap fonts from TrueType fonts." So there - really not much of a common denominator. Though there are some ?tag=ttf fonts in collection here from the past, I think I am actually against adding other vector fonts here now. Those two worlds (of pixelated and vector graphics) have little in common, imo. There is a library and an editor I wrote in Lazarus, as of tools there's https://github.com/crs2/Bmf/blob/develop/ttf2png.php and https://bmf.php5.cz/img2bmf.php
2022-12-03 18:35:20	General discussion	Joe Strout	I've recently become aware of the "BMFont" format, popularized by AngelCode.com (http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/). It seems to be essentially the same as BMF, except that it uses two files: a PNG file for the glyph data, and a separate text file with the metadata. That's two files to keep track of instead of one, but it has the advantage that you can easily look at the PNG file for a preview of the font. Any thoughts about how these two formats relate? Are there conversion tools from one to the other? Finally, one reason I've heard that people like BMFont is that there is a nice (Windows) tool for creating them from TrueType fonts -- do we have such a tool for BMF? (Except for mine, which I have not released?)
2022-11-29 15:30:30	goth16	Oliver	Thanks for fixing.
2022-11-26 00:48:38	aa8c_67435	admin	In this font it looks like each character is blended with the previous one. Also, in the image of the font someone's written "F#CK FONT" followed by like 20 exclamation marks. Maybe he wasn't exactly enthusiastic about assembling it. P.S. if anyone knows the name of this font, where it was used or who's made it, please, write in the comments. OkayThanksBye.
2022-11-22 22:28:08	General discussion	Oliver	Thanks a lot for the super quick update on the UI. Soooo much better now.
2022-11-21 15:56:35	General discussion	admin	I added this project to the ?page=support.
2022-11-21 15:50:41	bisasam_20x20_ascii	admin	Hi, Joe. Maybe there's some misunderstanding in how the writing the text out into canvas is meant to be. The [x,y], as an input parameter for the routine for text output, is supposed to be on the baseline - not the top-left corner. It's the routine that has to add sizeOver to the baseline to get to a "top line" from which it then adds [relX, relY] of each character. Capital letters in this font are 13px "tall", so sizeOver is 13. The sizeUnder parameter says: reserve this many pixels under (or below) the base line for characters like , j g y…. Does it make sense? Feel free to comment here.