Make Your Own Bitmap Font
If you work in Macromedia Flash a lot or just like using pixel fonts, you may want to check out the BitFontMaker. It lets you create and save your font in TrueType format – all from within a nifty, easy-to-use Web interface. (Where was I when this got posted to the Internet a year or so ago?)
… Or if you want to go the longer route and use a full-blown font editing application, you can also follow MiniFont’s pixel font design tutorial.
February 21st, 2005 at 11:39 pm
*Thinking With Type*, Ellen Lupton’s new book, has a small section dedicated to bitmap fonts. She has some great examples to be inspired by. It has been an interesting read so far. Here is a little excerpt on designing bitmap fonts.
*”Avoid making detailed ‘staircases,’ which are just curves and diagonals in disguise. This exercise looks back to the 1910s and 1920s, when avante garde designers made experimental typefaces out of simple geometric parts.”*
February 27th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
This use of grid to make the letters has something to do with the “Letter Spirit”
April 13th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Dear Sr:
I’m playing with microcontrollers and want to know how to obtain a binary (0 or 1, black and white) pixel map file of the most common used letters and the most common sizes.
As an exxample the data file shall look like:
0Ah,FFh,FEh, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Efrain Torres