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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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| Time | Subject | Name | Comment |
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| 2020-11-20 04:59:24 | General discussion | admin | I added another layer of spam protection, in this case based on frequent spam words and phrases. I'm affraid I'll have to -basically- test it live for the moment being.
Appologies in advance to legit contributors in case of any possible inconvenience.
If you are not a spammer and your comment happens to be evaluated as a spam by my script, please, let me know by using the form on the "Contact me" page - https://bmf.php5.cz/?page=contact
Thanks for your understanding. |
| 2020-11-20 04:00:02 |
| admin | Version with a slightly different palette used in Final Fight by Crystal - https://demozoo.org/productions/231233/ |
| 2020-11-20 03:53:47 |
| admin | Similar font used in Mind Funk 085 by The Electronic Knights - https://demozoo.org/productions/261998/ |
| 2020-11-20 03:48:55 |
| admin | Probably found a demo in which this font was used - Treacl Is Lame by Creed
- https://demozoo.org/productions/209033/ |
| 2020-11-20 03:11:24 |
| admin | Purple version appears in Velveteen 18 by Sanity -
https://demozoo.org/productions/256860/ |
| 2020-11-19 13:42:39 | General discussion | admin | The damn spam that even passes reCAPTCHA is making me think of writing some additional protection. Maybe trigger phrases. Or an option for users to mark it and then a 'garbage collector' to take care of it later. |
| 2020-11-17 11:00:51 | General discussion | Zbeng | In font pages, the word "Download" appears in the middle and below the image of the text written in the font. Above it and to the left there is an image of a checked box. What is the purpose of both of these? |
| 2020-11-17 10:24:36 | General discussion | admin | Zbeng: Bug fixed, thanks! |
| 2020-11-17 09:17:46 | General discussion | Zbeng | Thumbs up stop working in font page. Refresh page does not help. |
| 2020-11-17 01:39:41 | General discussion | admin | few changes in the font detail page:
-download of the font itself moved from the "demo text" image further down into the description
-added an option to color-tint the text in the input (you can choose a color and a strength of the tint)
-added the "Full charset" section (available via clicking, tho). |