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

pym-logo

cadaver

party-intro-by-amaze-t

party-intro-by-amaze-s

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2007-11-06 21:10:58	General discussion	admin	over 50 thousand visitors! (well, more precisely: fetches)
2007-10-11 07:22:39	softrck0	admin	approx. 1992 as a part of some Pascal programing tutorial
2007-10-11 07:20:12	sex	admin	as I can see, this font is experiencing its rocket-start in popularity
2007-10-11 07:17:23	tristar	admin	taken from some old demo showing 'TRISTAR' in its scroller
2007-10-11 07:08:20	syshock	admin	taken from one of the propagation images of System Shock 1 and refilled by crs/broncs
2007-10-08 14:02:12	dd	crs/broncs	some letters still missing, hmm.. i may fix it, some time
2007-10-08 08:56:36	bloody	admin	it's basically the system font with a little of bleeding.
2007-10-04 01:04:00	162b	admin	based on 162.bmf but with that red outline.
2007-10-04 00:39:55	stilcool	admin	Sense: ..and (sorry not to ask in the first place).. is it o.k. for this font to be here? (according to your owner-rights and stuff, you know..)
2007-10-04 00:35:59	nam	admin	Sense: Do you remember any details about this font or making it? (i'm asking to eventually append it to its description)