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!

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Recent comments

Time	Subject	Name	Comment
2022-01-25 02:28:19	General discussion	admin	Some stats: - just surpassed 15K tags - 5,745 designating tags for 5,673 fonts (101.27%) - all fonts with at least one tag - each initial letter/digit has at least 58 fonts, the most numerous is 's' (483) - 6,850 or (120.75%) external links but unevenly distributed - some fonts have as much as 13 external links - on the other side, 1,546 fonts have no external links (good portion of them mine) - 1,108 tags identifying artists (19.5%) - 49.66% of fonts monospaced, 50.34% proportional - average font file size is 22.6kB, while the median is about 9kB - most common font size is... 5kB (827), 4kB (586), 3kB (407), 6kB (250), 9kB (218), 10kB (215)...
2022-01-21 19:03:01	General discussion	admin	@Josephkex Thank you. Appreaciated.
2022-01-21 08:03:45	General discussion	Josephkex	I just want to say thank you for this great website. I found a solution here on bmf.php5.cz for my issue.
2022-01-20 04:05:18	309b	admin	Derived from ?font=309 by altering the palette (swapping the red and blue components).
2022-01-15 16:55:54	180b	admin	Like ?font=180 but the darkest color is opaque.
2022-01-03 06:42:19	General discussion	Kevinreame	Hello. And Bye.
2022-01-03 00:23:56	levelrebel-s	admin	Antialiasing this font required to pixelize over 12,000 points.
2022-01-02 17:34:26	fonts16_2	admin	Bigger version of this font used in Megadisk by Starline Software - https://demozoo.org/productions/222197/
2021-12-25 18:39:20	General discussion	admin	I renamed the "desert-twilight" tag to ?tag=desert-chrome because (as I've found out) the latter is more commonly used.
2021-12-23 22:48:16	066	admin	A very similar font used in Atari ST 20 Year Celebration Mega Demo by Atari Scene Collective and Dead Hackers Society - https://demozoo.org/productions/65068/