bited is a bitmap font designer and editor focused on monochrome Unicode BDF fonts. It provides a graphical environment for creating pixel fonts from scratch as well as importing and modifying existing fonts.
The interface includes an editor for drawing individual glyphs, a glyph table for working with multiple characters, and a tree for navigating character sets and encodings. Fonts can be previewed with test text while they are being designed.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create bitmap fonts from scratch.
- Import monochrome Unicode BDF fonts.
- Draw and manipulate individual glyphs.
- Select and manipulate multiple glyphs.
- Navigate fonts by character sets and encodings.
- Visual markers for font metrics.
- Font preview with text presets.
- Starting presets for font metrics.
- Rename and delete fonts from the font database.
- Automatic saving to a SQLite database.
- Export fonts to BDF files.
- Reload externally modified BDF files.
- Light and dark themes.
Website: github.com/molarmanful/bited
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Developer: Ben Pang
License: MIT License
bited is written in GDScript and uses the Godot Engine.
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