Fonts | 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 upon 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

the-last-terror

target-game-of-killing

sgtf3_25

pinball-dreams-2-extra-courses-disk

x-es-techno-no-limits

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2021-02-23 14:19:49	General discussion	admin	3200 fonts (ca 2100 proportional, 1100 monospace) 970K total views 7000 total tags, 3000 external links
2021-02-21 16:59:10	145	Zbeng	Recoloring https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=sndemo-gold to the colors seen in https://demozoo.org/productions/111294/ proves to be a lot more work than I anticipated, since the original font is 3 bit (8 colors) while the one in the intro is 4 bit (16 colors). I'll send you the original message I found in memory. If you want you can recolor the rest of the characters accordingly.
2021-02-17 22:02:01	153	admin	Yeah. And giant ones too.
2021-02-17 22:00:04	lave	admin	Found in /st/ and /fontgames/ directories, but no other info to it.
2021-02-16 23:46:14	153	Zbeng	Many nice fonts in the European Demos. I should try to rip them sometime.
2021-02-16 23:41:41	145	Zbeng	The font is not identical - at least the 'O' is different. When I ripped this intro, I saw that it does not have the entire font, but merely the words "ST CONNEXION" (I think). However, it may be possible for me to re-color the complete font (eg: the one I sent you for https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=sndemo-gold) with this palette. I haven't tried yet..
2021-02-16 23:33:07	studded-metal-bright	Zbeng	I think not.. But this one could be it: https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=230
2021-02-16 22:15:42	145	admin	Two-color version (beige and gray) seen in Replicants Intro (Nom Du Jeu) by Replicants and ST Connexion - https://demozoo.org/productions/111294/
2021-02-16 21:50:26	153	admin	Orange version seen in European Demos by The Overlanders - https://demozoo.org/productions/73312/
2021-02-16 21:44:55	studded-metal-bright	admin	Is this the same font? https://media.demozoo.org/screens/o/b0/ba/d31c.93558.png https://demozoo.org/productions/73312/screenshots/