Ask HN: Software to Render Font to PNG

1 delduca 2 5/22/2025, 6:33:00 PM
Long story short: I adapted a codebase from over 20 years ago that used bitmap fonts in this format [1], and I really like it because I use it in my 2D engine. Bitmap fonts are more efficient and don’t require memory allocation for new texts (yes, I could render all glyphs into memory and draw them the same way as bitmap fonts), but I think bitmap fonts offer more artistic freedom. I’d like to know if any of you know of a tool or software that can generate fonts similar to the one in the image below.

Thanks!

https://imgur.com/a/S8GDnEC

Comments (2)

solardev · 11h ago
delduca · 11h ago
Thank you, I will give a try.