- Join Lee Brimelow for an in-depth discussion in this video, Creating and importing bitmap fonts, part of Building Flash Games with Starling.
- The gutter I mentioned is only used by Flash's native TextField, and thus by Starling's TextField if it uses a TrueType font (since in that case, I'm simply rendering a native TextField into a Bitmap).
- Online Font Generator - Very Useful Free Tool for Font Generation (self.gamedev) submitted 3 years ago by furuknap Just found out about this amazing little tool to generate completely unique and custom fonts very easy.
I really like bitmap fonts for programming/terminal. As far as I know there are two bitmap fonts with good unicode support:
Bitmap font plugin added. This tool comes with a CSS export option as well as the famous fnt file for Unity, Cocos 2d Starling or other frameworks. A HTML bitmap font demo is also part of the documentation sample page. Added initial help screen to explain the basic controls. When comparing libGDX vs Starling, the Slant community recommends libGDX for most people. Very good tools for rendering fonts. Bitmap font with batching. Basic distance fields with support for outline and filters via MeshStyle. 1.2 the new multichannel distance field, the ultimate solution for bitmap font rendering. Allow the plugins to format both font descriptor and image files. Signed distance fields for improved quality zooming on bitmap fonts. Here's a tool that convert BMFont output to distance field fonts. Option for exporting with pre-multiplied alpha; Support multiple fonts and different font sizes in a single output. TextField vertical alignment differs between bitmap font and ttf #902. (I created a test bitmap font (using Littera) of Verdana for the sake of comparing here). I had similar issues with Starling 1.8 - bitmap fonts where never perfectly aligned and I had to add these micro adjustments to make them look good.
The problem is that I have a really high resolution screen, and they're both too small. Fixed does include a large size (10x20) but it looks really bad (it's basically always bold, and bold is a different face).
Are there any other bitmap fonts with unicode support and large sizes? Terminus is the only font with a decent size but it doesn't have good unicode support. Having good coverage for mathematical symbols would be enough, since that's what I need.
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My UW ttyp0 has about 3000 Unicode characters, including a number of stylistic variants (plain, dotted or slashed zero, centered or raised asterisk, visible or invisble NBSP, etc.). I don't know which symbols you're looking for; math coverage is clearly not complete, but it may be sufficient for your needs. APL and Z notation are not covered, though. Sizes range from 6x11 to 11x22 in regular, bold, and some italic. Currently it's only .bdf/.pcf (that is, the X11 bitmap format); if you need .fon or some other font format, you'll have to convert it yourself (it's free software).