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

cadaver

party-intro-by-amaze-t

party-intro-by-amaze-s

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2021-05-17 13:25:54	General discussion	admin	I'm making some minor changes - trying to comply with strict CSP (Content Security Policy); will be glad if in case of any error or non-functionality you report it here.
2021-05-15 19:20:30	tsk03	admin	Blue/cyan version seen in CD 13 by The Screen Killers - https://demozoo.org/productions/78054/ edit 2021-05-16: Added as ?font=cd13sk.
2021-05-15 18:23:33	genesis	admin	Pastel magenta version of this font seen in CD 11 by The Screen Killers - https://demozoo.org/productions/122293/ edit 2021-05-19: added as ?font=cd11
2021-05-14 19:35:01	264	admin	Another variant seen in Mega-Bob-Demo by Axxis - https://demozoo.org/productions/65162/
2021-05-13 14:05:40	acd296	admin	This font with different palette used in Automation CD #265 intro by Automation - https://demozoo.org/productions/93119/
2021-05-13 13:31:32	xerud2	admin	Orange version Automation CD #204 V2 intro by Automation - https://demozoo.org/productions/93051/
2021-05-13 13:30:55	xerud	admin	This one and ?font=xerud2 used in Automation CD #189, #195, #196, #197, #204, #205...
2021-05-13 13:26:07	sector99b	admin	Yet another slightly different version of this font used in Automation CD #174, #175 and #176 intro by Automation.
2021-05-13 13:20:44	acd128	admin	Also used in Automation CD #122 and Automation CD #121 by Automation. Links added.
2021-05-13 13:12:49	triangle	admin	A brown version appears in The Mindbomb Demo by The Lost Boys - https://demozoo.org/productions/72284/screenshots/ edit 2021-05-19: added as ?font=mindbomb-demo.