Fonts for Arduino

Purpose

This collection of code snippets and fonts are intended for use with a 8x8 LED matrix controlled with an Arduino.

It requires the LedControl library to communicate with the module.

Fonts are those of the PCs of the 80s and are grabbed from different sources (see Credits).

There are so many libraries and programs to display strings or sprites on LED matrices. This one covers my needs.

Licenses

License for source code is the Unlicense (aka. free software).

bdf font files are licensed under the Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike International 4.0 license. And probably IBM, but the following authors do not mention it.

Credits

1. github.com/dhepper/font8x8
   The inspiration source for render.c.

2. github.com/farsil/ibmfonts
   A collection of monospaced, bitmap fonts in BDF format that origin from IBM text mode and system fonts. They include extended latin, greek, cyrillic and hebrew scripts and several extra characters, for a total of 782 glyphs each. The fonts are in BDF 2.1 format and fully compatible with applications that make use of either Xft or XLFD.

3. VileR from The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack for his pixel-perfect reproductions of these old system fonts. I used his PxPlus fonts as a base.