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
2020-11-17 01:39:41	General discussion	admin	few changes in the font detail page: -download of the font itself moved from the "demo text" image further down into the description -added an option to color-tint the text in the input (you can choose a color and a strength of the tint) -added the "Full charset" section (available via clicking, tho).
2020-11-17 01:02:27	027	admin	Didn't find Digi Tallis' dentro, however I found a game of theirs and linked that. P.S. As I can see, those screenshots have also numbers and punctuation not present in this version. P.S. Source code available - http://www.digitallis.co.uk/atari/killthings/index.html and in the ZIP there's GAME\DATA\MENUFONT.3BT
2020-11-17 00:17:55	042b	admin	Like "042" but with the inner darkest color being opaque.
2020-11-16 23:01:38	General discussion	Zbeng	The full-charset feature is AMAZING! I've wanted something like this for a long time! How should the "Tint" feature be used?
2020-11-16 20:21:39	General discussion	admin	You can now add "fullCharset" to the URL (of a font detail) to include an image of full character set of current font. Example: https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=tubular&fullCharset P.S. I'm thinking I may include this featurette on one click, for convenience.
2020-11-16 16:46:54	grimmy-hitech-b	admin	Like "grimmy-hitech" but the inner black color is opaque.
2020-11-16 15:28:10	grimmy-hitech	Zbeng	I do not see something similar in the collection, but this looks familiar. I'll need to check my own collection.
2020-11-16 15:04:20	grimmy-hitech	admin	Zbeng: Good eye! Linked! I checked the hashes and they're different but that's because of border of the blue one and rough edges of the purple one. Using just the shape and refilling the texture of other characters is rather time-consuming. To be honest, unless I find the whole picture of this font, I tend to keep this one as is for now, and keep converting other fonts. P.S. Tried googling by image; no success. P.S. Similar one that I'm gonna convert, by the same artist, is http://artcity.bitfellas.org/gallery/m/mat/grimmy-high_technology2.png Any hints?
2020-11-16 13:56:03	grimmy-hitech	Zbeng	And punctuation marks too..
2020-11-16 13:54:11	grimmy-hitech	Zbeng	This looks like https://bmf.php5.cz/index.php?font=d-bug by Xerud. You can recycle the letters that are missing from there...