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How to generate a bitmap font

Turn a character set into a bitmap font sheet — a grid of glyphs plus a metrics file — for use in game engines that render text from a texture. Runs in your browser.

Steps

  1. Enter your characters (letters, numbers, punctuation — any text).
  2. Set the font size and columns. Each glyph is centered in an equal cell; columns control the sheet's width.
  3. Download:
    • PNG — the glyph sheet on a transparent/dark background.
    • JSON metrics — the cell size and each glyph's x/y/w/h, so your engine knows where each character lives.

Pair the PNG and JSON in your engine to draw text glyph-by-glyph.