This tool creates HD font resource packs using installed fonts on the system. If it's supported and installed in your computer, you can use it.
To use, select the font and texture size from the dropdown boxes and click Create. A zip named using the font name and the size will be created in the directory it was started from. Add this file as a resource pack.
For command line usage, just give it a font name with spaces replaced with underscores, then the texture. A nonexistent font will use the JRE default (dialog.plain).
Note: Every font is different, so some may look weird and require tweaking after generation, but most fonts should be fine.
The generator can be downloaded from the Release page. Pick the file for your operating system.
Extract the zip or tar file to run the executable.
Different options can be customized before generation. These include:
- Font: The font family to use, pre-populated from system fonts.
- Texture Size: The size of the texture. Limited to one of x32, x64, x128, x256, x512. Higher resolution textures will take longer to generate
- Pack Format: The minecraft version range to generate the font for. Supports formats 1 through 7.
- Unicode: (legacy), Generates the full extended unicode, which consists of 256 pages, each with 256 characters. Fallback font uses the gnu uniform font.
- Parallel: Uses multiple threads to generate font bitmaps in parallel.
Note: The project uses JDK 17.
The following Gradle tasks can be used to run or build the project.
./gradlew run- Runs the project with gradle./gradlew build- Build the project and package dependencies with a launch script. This is useful if you have the JDK installed already, though you have to extract it manually../gradlew jPackageDist- Create a platform-specific archive which bundles the JRE. The unarchived build files are located inbuild/jpackage.