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

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2023-07-29 22:30:07	trisomic-b	admin	A version with opaque black.
2023-07-27 13:29:12	General discussion	admin	I added the 'year' tag/parameter and filled in some values for fonts published in known years. Feel free to filter by year now. Also, if you know a year of creation of some fonts, don't hesitate to suggest it.
2023-07-27 12:55:38	yo-plastic-dreams	admin	The letter 'Y' in the original font has a little "bug" (it seems) in a form of two brown pixels in the top right corner. Fixed here.
2023-07-27 12:50:05	lightnings	admin	Digits added.
2023-07-26 05:05:21	a-small	admin	Also named "2.OKS_Sunriders_Font" according to https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=86128
2023-07-24 22:44:04	292	admin	Similar font (with texture) seen in Megademo by Freedom Force - https://demozoo.org/productions/158893/ ---- edit 2024-05-12: added as ?font=megademo-by-freedom-force
2023-07-24 22:41:55	britney-lindsey-amanda-pipeline	admin	Similar font used in Running Man by Scoopex - https://demozoo.org/productions/257412/
2023-07-23 04:08:02	porn-demo-b	admin	Letters other than in "COMPLEX" recycled by crs/broncs.
2023-07-18 00:08:55	wayne3d	admin	A version of this font with some texture seen in "Crap Trap 28 by Armageddon" - https://demozoo.org/productions/219524/
2023-07-17 23:07:26	walt-metro	admin	Very similar font used in "1992 Delirium by Vega" - https://demozoo.org/productions/265538/