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My collection of bitmap fonts pulled from various demoscene archives over the years

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2021-02-03 · latest 2024-06-17

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  1. …at this resolution, I would sooner look for the font in bitmap font collections like this: https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts I wouldn't be surprised though if the font was created 'from scratch'
    comment by drsopp · 2024-06-17 · in Quake 1 potential original font
  2. …not just demoscene fonts, for example I also found the fonts from the original Lemmings game(s) ( https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/lemblue.png ) which were of course part of a commercial project. But as the games themselves…
    comment by rob74 · 2021-02-04 · in I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub
  3. …with similar names, but e.g. from the first page, two of the same size with different ordering: https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32_32V1.png https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/32X32-F1.png Still, it's a good…
    comment by pmayrgundter · 2021-02-04 · in I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub
  4. Good call. https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/commit/255f865af0dfbe7...
    comment by ianhanschen · 2021-02-03 · in I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub