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

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2021-06-04 21:52:33	General discussion	admin	I added two tags recently: - ?tag=incomplete-alphabet tags fonts with incomplete alphabet, i.e. at least one of the A...Z letters missing. - ?tag=non-latin tags fonts not having lating letters A...Z (alien languages, runes, international pronouncing letters, etc.)
2021-06-04 14:39:44	diehard1	admin	The D,I,E H,A,R,D letters from the game's title converted, other letters and characters re-imagined by crs/broncs.
2021-06-03 02:23:09	173	admin	The first font in the collection to hit 5000 views (and 1000 downloads).
2021-06-01 00:12:31	General discussion	admin	In May 2021, there were 295 fonts added and we had 180k views and 81k downloads (most so far).
2021-05-27 01:35:49	149	admin	Looks a hell lot like the Chicago font, bitmap and unsoftened version, used in oldest MacOSs. edit: Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface) Considering it was used since 1984, this may most likely be the oldest font in the collection.
2021-05-26 03:35:28	dynasty	admin	Simpler version of this font (less colors) found in Anarchy Intro by STAX - https://demozoo.org/productions/130094/
2021-05-26 03:14:32	unreleased-demoscreens-st-connexion	admin	This is a font and a bitmap resource two-in-one. Taken from this screen - https://media.demozoo.org/screens/s/18/75/1248.61275.png
2021-05-24 22:15:48	cadillacs	admin	Drawn from screenshots by crs/broncs.
2021-05-23 20:21:27	zhang150	admin	Original letters are ~ 600px * 800px each. That's too much for this format so I had to shrink it a bit - did two smaller versions, 150px and 75px one. I Also had to limit the number of colors; hopefully fewer colors is not noticeable.
2021-05-23 19:48:50	color-agent-t	admin	?font=diehard2 is not "related" to this font per se, but I added the connection because of the similar blue & red color suave.