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
2020-10-24 00:08:55	term1116t	admin	'was fixed (sorry for the late answer)
2020-10-23 23:31:50	suprhero-half	admin	Full size version (of over a half a megabyte in file size) included now (long after I've somehow solved the quotas problem). Curiously, a random spam reminded of that.
2020-10-23 23:24:40	suprhero	admin	This font is so big that some parameters (represented in signed 8-bit integers) cannot notate its width/height or x/y-coordinate reach.
2020-10-23 02:37:03	car_dbug	admin	@Zbeng: Allright, thanks for the explanation. Approved.
2020-10-23 00:58:30	car_dbug	Zbeng	I suggested the Artist. This Dbug is a person (Coder, graphic artist and musician). See here: https://demozoo.org/sceners/2503/ So is not related to "D-Bug". Also, look at the signature scripted inside the font.. :-)
2020-10-22 23:54:33	car_dbug	admin	Zbeng: A "Dbug" was suggested as an artist tag for this font. That's a group, tho, right? And correct form is "D-Bug", I guess. Should I accept it (and by extension, demogroups to be "artist")?
2020-10-22 18:48:35	029	admin	Daniel Guldkrans' note to this font: "This font looks almost the same as the one in the "VODKA DEMO" (ATARI) althought some letters are not quite the same."
2020-10-22 18:04:13	oldfrench	admin	@Zbeng: "oldfrenc" deleted. Good acumen, thanks!
2020-10-22 08:42:21	oldfrench	Zbeng	Looks like an exact duplicate https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=oldfrench&font2=oldfrenc
2020-10-22 08:21:52	font33	Zbeng	Another unexpected relation to https://bmf.php5.cz/?font=003_32 found by the contour hash