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Bitmap font creator

Bitmapfontcreator is a simple program for creating pixel fonts, built with the Love2D game framework.

screenshot

Installation

  1. Install fontmake
  2. Download the file for your OS from the releases tab
    • Windows: Extract it and run the .exe.
    • MacOS: Extract it and run the .app.
    • Linux: Install the Love2D package, run it with love bitmapfontcreator_linux.love

Usage manual

On startup, Bitmapfontcreator will create a new font.

Font options

You can change the font metadata on the top right, under 'Font options'. Don't forget to press enter to confirm, though, since otherwise it won't save the changes.

Glyph options

At the bottom right, under 'Glyph options', three previews are present, with scaling x1, x2 and x4. To add a subcomponent, click the 'add'-button, and click on the glyph you want to add. You can then change the x and y-offset, or remove it.

Character picker

At the left side is the character picker, above that is the button to switch between the two sets of characters:

  • Normal, printable characters
  • Combining (non-printable) characters, like only the acute or grave symbol.

Drawing canvas

Mouse actions in the drawing canvas:

Button Action
left click add pixel
right click remove pixel
middle click
or ctrl+click		 move canvas
scroll zoom

Font actions

Bitmapfontcreator will save the font in ufo-format, in the save directory.

  • If there is no folder with the font name present, it will create one.
  • If there is alreaady a folder with the font name present, it will use that as its font root, essentially updating the font that was present previously.

For compiling, Bitmapfontcreator will need fontmake, which will generate a TrueType-font in the save directory.

Save directory:

Platfom Path
Windows %appdata%\bitmapfontcreator\
MacOS ~/Library/Application Support/bitmapfontcreator/
Linux ~/.local/share/love/bitmapfontcreator

To load a font, navigate to the save directory and drag the .ufo directory onto the Bitmapfontcreator window.
If it doesn't create a font file, there probably was an error while compiling. To see logs and error messages on windows, run the exe from the command line as bitmapfontcreator.exe --console. For MacOS and Linux, running Bitmapfontcreator from the command line should be enough.

License

See LICENSE.

This project uses the following libraries: