#130930 - BovineFury - Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:01 am
I'm looking for something that will create decent looking font strip images with character dimensions of 8x8 and 8x16.
#130931 - keldon - Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:12 am
Well there's even better; search the forum for 8x8 font, or something like that because there is a topic (in the graphics section I think) that has a link to a load of fonts with 8x8 and 16x16 dimensions!
#130932 - BovineFury - Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:21 am
I did look but couldn't find anything that was free/fit the purpose.
#130944 - tepples - Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:55 pm
You could always use a tile editor or a paint program to draw the font.
By "fit the purpose", what do you mean?
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#130955 - BovineFury - Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:57 pm
The problem with drawing my own font is that I am completely artistically talentless. That is why I wanted something that would generate the strip: so that I wouldn't have to manipulate the art in any way.
#130958 - Miked0801 - Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:44 pm
Try. I can't draw a smiley face but have had no problems creating fonts in the past.
#130963 - keldon - Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:00 pm
#130969 - BovineFury - Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:49 pm
I read that thread previously. Those fonts seem to be of questionable legal use or outright stripped from copyrighted works.
#130974 - tepples - Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:13 pm
Raster fonts are not subject to copyright in the United States of America. Besides, even in those few jurisdictions that do recognize rights analogous to copyright on typeface designs, the "mbmenu" font in that image is my original work, which I am willing to license permissively.
BovineFury: These laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Filling in the Location: field of your profile might help us find appropriate information that you can show to your lawyer.
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#130976 - BovineFury - Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:19 pm
While the fonts themselves may be free, the image files might not be.
"Hence the computer file(s) associated with a scalable font will generally be protected even though the specific design of the characters is not."
This is why I was looking for something to generate them. I don't want to use a image file that could have been stripped from a copywrited work, like the fonts from http://pinocchio.jk0.org/nes/8x8s.png.
#130978 - tepples - Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:26 pm
| BovineFury wrote: |
While the fonts themselves may be free, the image files might not be.
"Hence the computer file(s) associated with a scalable font will generally be protected even though the specific design of the characters is not." |
A "scalable font" is a computer program, in formats such as .ttf, whose input is a reference to a glyph and a point size and whose output is some raster representation of the glyph's shape. Specifically, 8x8s.png != "scalable font". Why do you think so many 1990s arcade games used a font identical to that of Donkey Kong?
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| This is why I was looking for something to generate them. |
Generate them from what source data? Mouse clicks? If so, just use GIMP or 8TED.
You meant "copyrighted", right? Under U.S. law,* these fonts by themselves do not constitute a substantial original portion of the works from which they were copied. Besides, as I said, the "who's cuter" and "mbmenu" blocks are my own original work.
* In this discussion, I will assume U.S. law until you fill in the Location: field in your profile.
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#131665 - ScottLininger - Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:36 pm
I don't know of any tool like that.
There are tons of free TTF fonts on the web. If you post what font you need to the "help wanted" section, there's probably a GIMP or Photoshop artist out there who will generate a strip for you in a couple of minutes.
But like Mike said, it's really not hard to make one yourself. Or, write a tool that does what you need and post it to the community for all to use.
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#131686 - sgeos - Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:12 am
I think some font tools are listed in "CJVK Information Processing. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Computing". A TTF to bitmap font tool must exist somewhere. Have you tried google?
-Brendan
#131689 - tepples - Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:21 am
There used to be TTF2PCX, designed for use with the Allegro library, but I think that stopped working around the Windows 98 to XP transition because it won't work on Windows 2000.
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#131853 - ThomasS - Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:01 pm
I've written a bitmap font generator tool: dsFont. Look at my signature!
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