Looking for a font 12 pixels wide x 24 pixels tall.

homosapien · 2012-12-17 13:17

Is there a known website that has fonts in binary (or hex) form that I can cut and paste into a Prop DAT section (with perhaps a little work to fit the Prop long-sized memory) to use as character pixel maps?

I seem to only be finding sites that have executable files to be used by Windows programs, I'm not sure how to get to the actual pixel data that I need... Don't want to spend the time re-inventing the wheel and mapping out my own...

Thanks,
Nate

Duane Degn · 2012-12-17 14:22

Nate,

When I've looked for fonts, I found most of them were eight pixels tall.

I have the font "Free Design" as as bits in both a 8 pixel tall font and a 10 pixel font.

Here's the lowercase "abc".

freeDesign097           byte %00000000
                        byte %01111000
                        byte %00001100
                        byte %01111100
                        byte %11001100
                        byte %11001100
                        byte %01111100
                        byte %00000000
                         
freeDesign098           byte %11000000
                        byte %11000000
                        byte %11111000
                        byte %11001100 
                        byte %11001100 
                        byte %11001100
                        byte %11111000
                        byte %00000000
freeDesign099           byte %00000000
                        byte %01111000
                        byte %11001000
                        byte %11000000
                        byte %11000000
                        byte %11001000
                        byte %01110000
                        byte %00000000

You can see the 8 pixel font at 2:56 in this video.

I have some PCB being made that will make it easier for me to build a larger LED array. I plan to have several different fonts, I'm not sure if I'll try for a 24 pixel font or not, I think I'd probably just scale one of the other fonts.

The Parallax font is 16 wide by 32 high. This includes a lot of blank space. I'd think removing the top and bottom blank area would make the font pretty close to what you're after.

In any case, I think it would be great if we all shared any fonts we create. If anyone is interested, I'll upload both my versions of the Free Design font.

Duane Degn · 2012-12-17 14:24

The forum software isn't letting me edit the above post.

Start the video at 2:24 to see the beginning of the font scroll.

Rayman · 2012-12-17 14:28

You could try this font editor (work in progress, but should do it):
http://www.rayslogic.com/Software/RaysFontEditor/RaysFontEditor.htm

Looking for a font 12 pixels wide x 24 pixels tall.

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