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The format

Version 1.2 is in preparations, soon to be released.

BMF version 1.1

offset size meaning
04magic header (0xE1E6D51A)
41version (0x11)
51lineHeight – measure from lowest to highest reach
(0…255) should be equal to or greater than size-under – size-over
61sizeOver (–128…127)
measure from baseline to top of capital letters, in pixels; should be negative
71sizeUnder (–128…127)
measure from baseline to lowest extends (of letters like "y", "g"), in pixels; should be positive or zero
81addSpace after each char (–128…127)
how many pixels to add after plotting each character
91sizeInner (height of small letters) (–128…127)
measure from baseline to top of small letters (e.g. "m"); should be negative
101usedColors – count of used colors
111highest used color attribute
124reserved (0)
161number of colors in palette, not counting color #0 (P)
17P*3font palette (array of RGB triplets, 6 bits/0…63 per component)
17+P*31title length (T)
18+P*3Ttitle or description of the font (string)
19+P*3+T2numChars – number of characters in font i.e. having non-zero size or shift (N)
20+P*3+T?bitmap definitions

N * (which character (its ASCII code 0…255), followed by its tablo entry)
E.g. "A", <tablo entry for "A">, "B", <tablo entry for "B">, "C", <tablo entry for "C">, …

Tablo entry has the following structure:

offsetsizemeaning
01character width (W)
11character height (H)
21relX – X offset from cursor position (–128…127)
31relY – Y offset from cursor position (–128…127)
41shift – horizontal cursor shift after drawing the character
5W * Hcharacter bitmap (uncompressed, row-major, 8 bits per pixel)

Each character with its width * height and shift equal to zero is considered empty (unused) and as such its entry is not stored. Characters with empty bitmaps but non-zero shift are valid, i.e. its tablo entry follows. Bitmap of 0×0 pixels = empty string. For example, space usually has no bitmap but its shift parameter is important to store within the font.

BMF version 1.2

Quick overview of changes from version 1.1:

  • Unicode support
  • alpha channel option
  • multiple palettes
  • kerning pairs

Basic backward compatibility maintained.

offsetsizemeaning
04magic header (0xE1E6D51A Little-Endian)
41version (0x12)
51lineHeight – measure from lowest to highest reach
(0…255) should be equal to or greater than size-under – size-over
61sizeOver (–128…127)
measure from baseline to top of capital letters, in pixels; should be negative
71sizeUnder (–128…127)
measure from baseline to lowest extends (of letters like "y", "g"), in pixels; should be positive or zero
81addSpace after each char (–128…127)
how many pixels to add after plotting each character
91sizeInner (height of small letters) (–128…127)
measure from baseline to top of small letters (e.g. "m"); should be negative
101usedColors – count of used colors
111highest used color attribute
121alphaBits – how many bits of each bitmap byte the alpha channel occupy? (0…8)
131extraPalettes – how many additional palettes there are (all palettes must fit into the 255-entry field)
142reserved (0)
161number of colors in palette, not counting color #0 (P)
17P*3font palette (array of RGB triplets, 6 bits/0…63 per component)
17+P*31title length (T)
18+P*3Ttitle or description of the font (string)
19+P*3+T2asciiChars – number of characters in font of codes under 128 (N)
20+P*3+T?bitmap definitions

N * (which character (its ASCII code 0…127), followed by its tablo entry)
E.g. "A", <tablo entry for "A">, "B", <tablo entry for "B">, "C", <tablo entry for "C">, …

Tablo entry has the following structure:

offsetsizemeaning
01character width (W)
11character height (H)
21relX – X offset from cursor position (–128…127)
31relY – Y offset from cursor position (–128…127)
41shift – horizontal cursor shift after drawing the character
5W * Hcharacter bitmap (uncompressed, row-major, 8 bits per pixel)
after that follows
sizemeaning
4unicodeChars (32-bit unsigned int) – how many characters of Unicode code greater than 255 follow (U)

U * (which character (32-bit unsigned int), followed by its tablo entry (same format as above)

after that follows
sizemeaning
4kerningPairs (32-bit unsigned int) – how many kerning pairs are defined (K)

K * kerning pair definition

offsetsizemeaning
04first character (its Unicode code, 32-bit unsigned int)
44second character
82correction (16-bit signed int), positive=shift right, negative=shift left

Example #1

hex dump of a font, with description
Raw view of a small font, here only with characters of A, B, and C. Plus, a 3×4px bitmap of A.

Example #2

For this example, let addSpace = 1, sizeOver = –8. The blue line is the base line, the blue cursor is the initial position to plot the text, the red cursor, being sizeOver pixels down from the base line, indicate cursor position before outputing each character of the text. Finally, to get to the actual top-left corners of each bitmap, we need to add the (relX, relY) vector from each character's tablo.

Fj:Q
width44110
height8949
relX0–210
relY0220
shift4238

Working with the format

Pseudocode for loading a font

filename = "font.bmf";
file = fopen(filename, "rb");
buffer = fread(file, 17);
version = buffer[4];
if (substr(buffer, 0, 4) != "\xE1\xE6\xD5\x1A" || (version != 0x11 && version != 0x12)) {
  return false; // not a BMF, version 1.1 or 1.2
}
lineHeight = buffer[5];
sizeOver = buffer[6];
sizeUnder = buffer[7];
addSpace = buffer[8];
sizeInner = buffer[9];
usedColors = buffer[10];
highestColor = buffer[11];
alphaBits = buffer[12];
extraPalettes = buffer[13];
reserved = buffer[14];
numColors = buffer[16];
palette = fread(file, numColors * 3);
for (i = 1; i <= numColors * 3; i++) {
  palette[i] *= 4; // stretch 0..63 values to 0..255
}
titleLength = fread(file, 1);
title = fread(file, titleLength);
asciiChars = fread(file, 2);
for (i = 0; i < asciiChars; i++) {
  whichChar = fread(file, 1);
  tablo[whichChar] = fread(file, 5);
  if (bitmapSize = tablo[whichChar][0] * tablo[whichChar][1]) {
    bitmaps[whichChar] = fread(file, bitmapSize);
  }
}
if (version >= 0x12) { // next goes for version 1.2 only
  unicodeChars = fread(file, 4);
  for (i = 0; i < unicodeChars; i++) {
    whichChar = fread(file, 4);
    tablo[whichChar] = fread(file, 5);
    if (bitmapSize = tablo[whichChar][0] * tablo[whichChar][1]) {
      bitmaps[whichChar] = fread(file, bitmapSize);
    }
  }
  numKerningPairs = fread(file, 4);
  kerningPairs = [];
  for (i = 0; i < numKerningPairs; i++) {
    fread(file, buffer, 10);
    kerningPairs []= buffer;
  }
}
fclose(file);

Pseudocode for layout

text = "EXAMPLE ABC";
originalX = cursorX = 30;
cursorY = 20;
lineBreaksEnabled = true;
for (index = 0; index < strlen(text); index++) { // for each character..
  whichChar = ord(text[index]);
  if (lineBreaksEnabled && (whichChar == 13)) { // line break
    cursorY += font.lineHeight;
    cursorX = originalX;
    continue;
  }
  charWidth = font.tablo[whichChar][0];
  charHeight = font.tablo[whichChar][1];
  charRelX = font.tablo[whichChar][2];
  charRelY = font.tablo[whichChar][3];
  charShift = font.tablo[whichChar][4];
  charBitmap = font.tablo[whichChar][5];
  for (bitmapY = 0; bitmapY < charHeight; bitmapY++) { // for each bitmap row..
    for (bitmapX = 0; bitmapX < charWidth; bitmapX++) { // for each bitmap column..
      colorAttribute = charBitmap[bitmapY * charWidth + bitmapX];
      if (colorAttribute) { // leave color attribute 0 as transparent
        setPixel(
          cursorX + charRelX + bitmapX, // x
          cursorY + font.sizeOver + charRelY + bitmapY, // y
          font.palette[colorAttribute]
        );
      }
    }
  }
  cursorX += charShift + font.addSpace; // update cursor position
  if (version >= 0x12 && index < strlen(text) - 1) {
    cursorX += font.kerningPairs[whichChar, ord(text[index + 1])];
  }
}