Tuesday 1 January 2013

Day 1 : Creating the Bitmap Font

Hi folks and a happy new year.

A quick task today - creating the bitmap font. This is an 8x8 64 bit font, and isn't actually documented anywhere. I know what each character is (it's a slightly modified 64 bit ASCII set) but not what they look like.

Fortunately there is a mix of screen grabs, box shots and photos from which most of the font characters can be copied.

A few I've had to guess, keeping the 'serif blocky square style' of the Gimini Font - these are V,X,Z and about half the punctuation characters, as these don't appear anywhere on the screenshots.

The screenshot shows a Java app whose sole purpose is to display the font for testing.

(The running font won't have the seperator lines for each pixel)

2 comments:

  1. Thabnks for sharing! But isn't easier to download pixel or bitmap fonts?

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  2. I was sent an AY-3-8800 to decap, and extracted the font:http://www.seanriddle.com/ay-3-8800-1.html

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