Image font sharing thread

[georgeprosser]

Hey lovers! I've spent way too long on converting from ttf to image font manually, but it's more worthwhile if others can use them.

Here's Free Pixel:
ttf: http://www.dafont.com/free-pixel.font
image font:

pixelfree.png (127.88 KiB) Viewed 8447 times

glyph string: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789#.!?: "



And here's Open Sans PX:
ttf: http://codewitchgamedev.blogspot.de/p/o ... oject.html
image font:

open-sans-px-16.png (42.76 KiB) Viewed 8447 times

glyph string: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~?\"\" "

[nkorth]

Here's a tiny one I made:



Glyphs: " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~"

I also have a few more that I made that aren't in Love2D format yet, but I can convert them if anyone is interested:

"Dark Future"


"Dark Future Bold"


"TI83"


"Telex 2 Narrow"


"Toroko"


All of those will have a particularly "retro" look to them because they're fixed-width. I'm thinking about redoing "Toroko" in variable-width though, especially if anyone else wants to use it.

[zorg]

I'll edit this post later to include two fonts myself, but also, i think 0.10 or later will have a more advanced image font solution, last i heard.

Edit: Here are the two fonts i got:

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string = "0123456789-&E"

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string = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ _().<>!?:0123456789&*@/#"

Some symbols are mapped to different ones purely because i didn't want to use unicode characters.

[georgeprosser]

I'll edit this post later to include two fonts myself, but also, i think 0.10 or later will have a more advanced image font solution, last i heard.

I don't know much about image fonts, but I think the format used by XNA is fairly standard: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archiv ... n-xna.aspx

[master both]

This is one I got from the internet and edited myself, It's really low res thought.

Glyph string: " ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-=[]\\,./;')!@#$%^&*(+{}!<>?:\""

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[slime]

i think 0.10 or later will have a more advanced image font solution, last i heard.

Indeed, LÖVE 0.10.0 will support the AngelCode BMFont format, which is relatively standard these days. There are a number of programs out there which generate BMFont files – this page lists a few.

0.10.0 will also slightly improve the old LÖVE ImageFont format. The colored separator pixels won't be treated as spacing anymore, and you'll be able to add a constant (positive or negative) spacing value for all glyphs in an ImageFont via an optional third parameter to love.graphics.newImageFont.

[arampl]

Indeed, LÖVE 0.10.0 will support the AngelCode BMFont format, which is relatively standard these days. There are a number of programs out there which generate BMFont files – this page lists a few.

Hooray!
And Lovelas library someday will help to create such fonts, I hope.

[Jasoco]

Just a note: If you post a font, please don't forget to include the string required to use it too. No one wants to have to retype out the entire set of characters.

Also, letter spacing is all I've ever wanted from them. Glad to see it'll be in a future version.

[arampl]

...letter spacing is all I've ever wanted from them...

What of kerning?
Without it text can look amateur with non-monospaced font.
BMFont support kerning pairs as they tell.

[slime]

Drawn text will automatically use kerning from BMFont files and TrueType fonts in LÖVE 0.10.0. ImageFonts don't have it, though.