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
2021-01-29 00:07:39	kayases	admin	I tried to balance shifts and relative X coordinates for letters with serifs but it looks it's not enough. In this font something more (like kerning pair or how it's called? which the BMF format in this version does not have) is needed.
2021-01-28 22:26:38	General discussion	admin	@Zbeng: Thanks for the bug-report! Looked at it and it should be fixed now. (Ctrl-F5 to reload resources)
2021-01-28 17:30:31	General discussion	Zbeng	Setting the text with fonts does not work for me anymore.
2021-01-28 13:46:00	General discussion	admin	900K total views 2000 proportional and 1055 monospace fonts 6400 tags 600 artist attributions p.s. added few feats to the main page like "most views this week", "most views yesterday" and quick comments searching.
2021-01-21 05:10:01	6060	admin	numerals added by crs/broncs
2021-01-21 03:45:10	9dollops2	admin	This one was so much more laborious to make than the b&w version.
2021-01-19 03:49:18	200	admin	Original Daniel Guldkrans' description: ?. ACCORDING TO ITS APPEARANCE, HOWEVER, THIS FONT WAS PROBABLY USED FOR SOME SCROLLER INTRO (OR OLDER DEMO).
2021-01-17 20:47:41	transmission-disk-4	admin	I found an image that seems to be of the font named "silents.png". Does it have anything to do with the group?
2021-01-16 05:59:41	General discussion	admin	3000 fonts
2021-01-16 05:22:32	testdrive2	admin	Numerals recycled by crs/broncs