Pixel fonts convertion

Effort to build a small library of some selected old-fashioned pixel fonts (aka terminal fonts) in an easy-parseable (or at least readable) format.

Mostly to be used with microcontrollers and tiny displays, like SSD1306-based 128x32 0.91" OLED, or SSD1315, or SH1107G, or ST7920, or even PCD8544-based Nokia 3310 display.

Convertion utility

mkwinfont by Simon Tatham and Matt Jernigan.

Usage:

python3 dewinfont.py -p DOSAPP DOSAPP.FON
python3 dewinfont.py -o Quake1.txt Quake1.fon

Font sources

• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack – huge pixel fonts database by VileR

• PICO-8 fonts collection by Matt Jernigan

• fixed exported font by PuTTY author himself

• Quake console font by Christian Künzer (aka ck! / Freaky Fonts)

• BigBlue Terminal 8x12

• ruscii

• Terminal Font Cyr

Additional resources

• https://michelbytes.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-make-fon-bitmap-font-files.html

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27470295/where-i-can-find-fon-format-specification

• Code page 437

• Atari ST character set

• Adafruit GFX Libraray fonts

• https://github.com/libdriver/ssd1306/blob/main/src/driver_ssd1306_font.h