Comments on: BitFontCreator – Create your own bitmap fonts

By: Tiberius

Tiberius — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:57:55 +0000

Norgus, seeing the fact that you havent made a website in your life, And you are only doing one now in college you can’t comment.

I use pixel fonts, mainly for sub text on sigs, and text on navs, and it looks perfect with anti aliasing. Ask any experienced Photoshop user they will tell you the same

By: AkaXakA

AkaXakA — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:22:46 +0000

I’ve actually created a half-way decent fontface with this, but when I save it, the ttf file doesn’t render in the windows font-preview or the fontbrowser from STC Associates.

Guess that’s why it’s still 0.1 (or the Japanese support could be the problem.)

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:48:40 +0000

And its for posts like this one that this site gets its name :) Thanks for keeping ‘us’ updated!

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:26:41 +0000

Norgus, but Pixel fonts aren’t created to be scaled. They’re created to be used for screen only, at specific sizes only, usually 8pt, 10pt, or 12pt. It’s great for buttons, flash apps, and other screen-related items.

If people want a high-quality 8-bit looking font to scale, there are ones that are created by high-quality font vendors that offer TrueType or PostScript.

Anyway, I think my pal Cal has a better how-to on creating pixel fonts, though it involves a $50 app as opposed to a free Flash app.

By: AkaXakA

AkaXakA — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:12:09 +0000

This is fantasticly simple.

Long live pixelfonts!

By: norgus

norgus — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:37:35 +0000

There is a reason people use trutype fonts, that reason is the sub-pixel information makes the font look good even when scaled.

Bitmap fonts are just… ugh. If you want to make a retro-feel chunky thing it would probably serve well though. (although there must be a million ‘retro’ fonts already)