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

tnb-logo-21

rum-limited-edition

098_technoblast_green

Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2020-11-26 04:25:47	hightech	admin	Letters Q-Z recycled from A-P.
2020-11-25 21:29:49	7pituitary-glands	admin	Heavily inspired by a regular scroller font in Mind Riot by Andromeda.
2020-11-25 17:21:33	General discussion	admin	External links now show target's <title> (where applicable).
2020-11-25 04:30:35	fasttracker2-style_12x12	admin	A font similar to the one used in headers in FastTracker ][ help. Not quite the one, though.
2020-11-24 17:45:34	General discussion	admin	Thumbs up and thumbs down in fonts' detail pages changed to 1/10 through 10/10 rating. Please, go ahead and rate fonts you like (or drag down those you dislike) - I'm curious which fonts are your favorite. With more data I will set up charts etc.
2020-11-24 04:02:38	sw-tcbcon1	admin	Consolidated characters with the font "howdy" (which was then deleted).
2020-11-24 00:12:54	f08	admin	Inspired by (but not copied from) the default font in the FastTracker II by Triton (1994).
2020-11-23 23:59:54	4bedstraws	crs	Added small-caps.
2020-11-23 20:02:30	234	Zbeng	The font with different palette used in - Mods 13 by Flatliners - https://demozoo.org/productions/118434/
2020-11-23 20:00:31	080	Zbeng	The logo may be based on this font, but some of the letters are different