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Rob Hagemans d11f085795 fix mislabelled cp850 glyphs in windows-3.1
2026-05-04 20:20:43 +01:00
acorn fix title for RISC OS 8x10 set 2023-05-08 21:19:27 +01:00
amiga move custom sets to separate directory sorting last 2023-05-08 15:18:53 +01:00
amstrad fix Amstrad PCW and CPC encodings, convert to yaff 2026-04-04 10:39:45 +01:00
apple add apple-i and signetics-2513 fonts 2024-05-05 23:05:36 +01:00
atari rearrange atari sets 2023-01-28 09:00:45 +00:00
banner update deprecated properties 2023-03-16 08:26:06 +00:00
commodore fix title on superpet apl set 2023-05-09 08:50:58 +01:00
crt8002 add crt8002-001 and -018, thanks @hackerb9 2026-04-03 12:25:27 +01:00
datapoint move images and extractor to context 2023-01-02 18:24:21 +00:00
dec fix labels and spacing on dec pdp fonts 2026-04-03 20:03:23 +01:00
elan_enterprise Convert files from DOS to Unix format (convert CRLFs to just LFs) 2026-03-15 14:47:45 +00:00
elektronika move dvk and elektronika into elektronika folder 2019-04-20 09:34:24 +01:00
epson update deprecated tracking properties 2023-04-25 08:06:12 +01:00
fujitsu add Fujitsu FM-7 2024-05-05 21:53:54 +01:00
gem add kanji font from dr-dos 6/v (viewmax-2-jp) 2022-12-11 12:01:12 +00:00
geos fix incorrectly extracted GEOS Cory fonts 2023-01-14 17:31:15 +00:00
hellschreiber Fix format errors that raise exceptions in monobit 2026-02-08 16:19:56 -05:00
hitachi add 1x spacing to hitachi HD44780 2026-04-03 11:48:25 +01:00
hp ad notes to hp1660 font 2026-04-11 18:09:07 +01:00
ibm Fix metadata 2026-04-29 16:43:10 +01:00
jupiter_cantab convert Jupiter Ace set to yaff format 2023-09-02 10:40:07 +01:00
kyotronic correct statement on Olivetti character sets 2022-09-24 10:39:33 +01:00
msx add two more arabic msx fonts mentioned at https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/general-discussion/msx-character-set-unicode-help-needed 2022-10-02 22:05:23 +01:00
ncr7250 Merge pull request #54 from ZoeB/videowriter 2026-03-29 21:37:25 +01:00
nec-pc update NEC PC-6001 files to yaff format 2023-05-03 07:45:35 +01:00
next add NeXTSTEP system fonts 2023-04-30 13:30:38 +01:00
oberon add ETH Project Oberon fonts 2026-04-09 21:58:04 +01:00
oric crop oric atmos and pravetz fontsto 6x8 2019-04-19 23:21:47 +01:00
os-2 rename os2_3.0 -> os2_warp3 2024-05-13 08:19:32 +01:00
palm add palm symbol fonts 2023-01-13 23:28:37 +00:00
pc merge poisk upper and lower character sets; move poisk and iskra to pc/ directory 2019-04-20 11:01:58 +01:00
pc-geos include sha1 hashes for pc-geos original files 2026-04-12 10:30:04 +01:00
rk-86 reorganise soviet systems 2019-04-20 18:24:31 +01:00
robotron add polisgh and cyrillic-only robotron sets 2019-04-21 16:37:36 +01:00
sharp reorganise directories 2019-04-20 09:13:04 +01:00
sinclair Note the ZX Spectrum's cell size 2026-03-14 11:33:31 +00:00
symbos add symbos v4.0b fonts 2026-04-06 21:27:23 +01:00
teletext Fix format errors that raise exceptions in monobit 2026-02-08 16:19:56 -05:00
texas_instruments Fix format errors that raise exceptions in monobit 2026-02-08 16:19:56 -05:00
trs-80 add note on VTech Laser / Dick Smith VZ computers 2023-05-13 09:36:34 +01:00
various add Ohio Scientific Superboard 2023-05-07 06:59:29 +01:00
videoton_tvc transcode videoton_tvc/tvc_cyr.yaff from win-1251 to utf-8 2026-04-03 11:47:43 +01:00
windows fix mislabelled cp850 glyphs in windows-3.1 2026-05-04 20:20:43 +01:00
xerox add Xerox Alto SysFont 2023-05-10 20:13:52 +01:00
|custom| move custom apple ii fonts to custom directory 2023-05-10 20:13:16 +01:00
LICENSE.md add a licence 2019-04-21 08:51:43 +01:00
README.md add link to YAFF spec in README 2024-03-10 20:10:58 +00:00

README.md

Bitmap fonts for humans

This repository contains bitmapped fonts from disused operating systems and graphical user interfaces.

As operating systems and GUIs have moved on to scalable vector fonts, the bitmap fonts that dominated the 1980s and 1990s languish away in non-obvious and often binary formats that are rapidly falling into obscurity.

The main purpose of this repository is to liberate these fonts from their binary shackles, preserving the ancient art of monochrome bitmap typography for human appreciation.

The fonts in this repository are stored in the human-friendly text-based YAFF format. As such, the easiest way to view them is to open the text files directly. Alternatively, you can use monobit to render them to images or convert them to font formats supported by current operating systems. You can also see the fonts as images here.