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
2020-11-23 20:00:31	080	Zbeng	The logo may be based on this font, but some of the letters are different
2020-11-22 21:12:51	General discussion	admin	Experimental feature - "?font=" + <name> in comments will change to a link pointing to that font. Won't work for external links. P.S. same for pages - "?page=" + <name>
2020-11-22 18:36:34	backlash	admin	Bigger, orange version used in Magic Pockets Cracktro by The Dream Team - https://demozoo.org/productions/164509/
2020-11-21 18:14:02	cebit	admin	Name of this font probably derived of the demo "CeBit 90 - Revenge of Babbnaasen" by Red Sector Inc. - https://demozoo.org/productions/21556/ (with some blueish fade "greenscreened" over) External link added edit 2021-08-07: added ?font=cebit90 with the red-to-orange fade from the above-mentioned demo.
2020-11-21 17:21:42	General discussion	admin	Some minor milestones passed: 2600+ fonts, 900+ of them monospaced, 1700+ proportional, also 4000+ tags, 700+K total views.
2020-11-21 17:06:34	General discussion	admin	Added an "extra letter spacing" option to font tryout. Cosmigo Pro Motion has had this feature for years, shout out to Jan Zimmerman (prg's author) for it.
2020-11-20 13:26:00	013	admin	The font with different palette used in - Mods 13 by Flatliners - https://demozoo.org/productions/118434/
2020-11-20 08:57:05	080	admin	Darker version seen in Chip Music Disc 1 by Germs - https://demozoo.org/productions/120168/
2020-11-20 08:54:43	117	admin	Seen in different palette in Intro Compilation #03 by Stranger - https://demozoo.org/productions/75857/
2020-11-20 08:10:13	288	admin	Link to "Sirius B Revisited" - https://demozoo.org/productions/55361/