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by karmakaze
2211 days ago
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I love this. When I was learning to program games in my teens on the Atari 8-bit, one of my favorite passtimes was making fonts and sprites. This takes me right back in time. And I can use it for mini game assets, maybe tiny raster fonts for code (like log windows). Thanks for making it and sharing. |
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It's a hobby/educational project, but I'm happy to see it solving some people's problems. I once wanted to add a good-looking font to my e-paper display for the air quality monitor project and I stumbled upon a simple MacOS app that converted images with text to byte arrays (https://luckyresistor.me/font-to-byte/). I picked it up, updated to Swift 3 and adjusted to my needs. When I blogged about it, somebody complained that it's MacOS only, so I decided to rewrite it in C++ with Qt (learning some modern C++ on that occasion).
The app was still quite cumbersome as it required you to prepare input images in external software like GIMP or Ps, and people had a hard time understanding the process. I was being asked repeatedly to help generate an image for a given font, so I figured out that the app could (should) be generating those input images programmatically. From there I added a minimal graphical editor to allow making corrections to auto-generated bitmaps (or drawing ones from scratch) and here we are.
Last but not least, I had a great fun learning C++17 and writing a template-based source code generator.