Fonted -Bitmap Font Editor

By Holger Zahnleiter

Abstract

Fonted is a simple bitmap font editor. I had the need to create my own bitmap fonts for my vintage computing projects (Serial Terminal).

Fonted should be portable as it is built with C++ on Dear ImGui and openGL. (However, I only tested on macOS and Linux.)

In addition to pixel editing, one can also import/export binary bitmap fonts. This way fonts dumped from original character ROMs can be made editable. Selfmade fonts can be exported to binary and burned into ROMs for genuine vintage computers or newly built vintage-like computers.

The project dependencies are managed by Conan. The project can be build with CMake.

An accompanying Makefile contains convenient targets to manage the dependencies, build the executable and conduct unit tests.

Visit Fonted’s Git repository for more details.

Project Source

Find the project's sources here: https://gitlab.com/hzahnlei/fonted

My Git repositories usually do not only contain source code. Typically you will find documentation, instructions and tests.

Status

  • Begin date: 2023-09-14
  • End date: ongoing
  • Status: active

Disclaimer

This is a non-profit, free and open source project. The information on this web site and the documents downloadable from here have been carefully reviewed and is believed to be reliable, but I do not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any documents, programs or circuit described herein. Furthermore I want to declare that I'm not responsible in any way for the content of other web pages, books and other sources I'm refering to.

Credits

I am using free and/or open source products and services. I want to thank enterprises, organizations and individuals alike for providing free services and open source software, electronics and mechanical designs and for sharing their knowledge and insights.

The respective products and services are recognized in the README.md that accompanies the project source.