A downloadable bitmap font

A BITMAP FONT FOR PEOPLE WITH GOOD EYESIGHT

  • PNG containing 348 glyphs at 5x6 pixels per glyph
  • Windows bitmap .FON version
    (only first 256 glyphs, no box drawing or block elements)
  • implements the following unicode ranges:
    • Basic Latin 
    • Latin-1 Supplement 
    • Box Drawing 
    • Block Elements 
  • first 256 glyphs are in exact unicode order (starting at 0)
  • easily adressed programmatically, without a lookup table
  • one jump condition required for box drawing and block elements
    (the latter two are in unicode after the jump in unicode address)

Since my previous font, DINOBYTE is very retro and its codepage 437 character mapping involves some fiddling in code to display correctly, I wanted to create a version with a unicode mapping, so that it could be used to write e.g. German, French, Spanish, Swedish etc. with it and be used in Windows as well.

Turns out the unicode box drawing range has more glyphs compared to codepage 437 and you can draw more border variations!

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons License 

  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

You can use this font both in free and in commercial projects. If you use it and publish something, I'd be glad to hear about it, to have a look at what other people maybe create with it. 

For attribution you can e.g. link to my twitter.

StatusIn development
CategoryAssets
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authormby
Tags8-Bit, ascii, Fonts, Retro, Roguelike, unicode

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DinoFive_basic_latin_and_supplement.fon 3 kB
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dinofive_font.png 1 kB

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Hi, thank you for this great font.

I used this font on PICO-8, https://jaular.itch.io/pico-8-dinofive-font

Wow, that’s so cool! I like the additional icons, thanks for the credit c: