Bitmap Font Machine is a graphical bitmap font generator that runs in your browser. It is optimized to be simple to use and is tailored specifically to generate textures for 3D based text.
Bitmap fonts are particularly well suited for use in computer and video games. They are fast, flexible and platform-independent. And they exist since the first games were created.
Bitmap Font Machine was first developed to address a major pain point while working on our own games. Creating proportional bitmap fonts in a standard graphics program turned out to be tedious and the bitmap font generators we came across were either difficult to use, only available on platforms we do not use or did not meet our requirements.
While developing Bitmap Font Machine, we decided to provide this tool to other game developers as well, because we believe that if it is useful to us, it could be useful to others as well.
The tool's philosophy is to be as simple as possible to encourage experimentation and save time using it.
Bitmap Font Machine is written for the Java Platform SE 5, which is available for all major operating systems and ensures a wide availability. Users can therefore take advantage of the power of their own development environment and use all the fonts they have available on their system.
We also decided to provide the functionality of the bitmap font generator without requiring a registration, so users can get started right away.
