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ianhan / BitmapFonts

BitmapFonts

My collection of bitmap fonts pulled from various demoscene archives over the years

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2KGitHub stars
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What it is

My collection of bitmap fonts pulled from various demoscene archives over the years

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-02-03 21:36:58 UTC to 2024-06-17 04:42:21 UTC.

012342021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I don't buy this at all. Too many differences, and at this resolution it is not that improbable for any font to have a doppelganger. Instead of looking for which vector font that have been rasterised at this resolution, I would sooner look for the font in bitmap font collections like this: https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts I wouldn't be surprised though if the font was created 'from scratch'
In Quake 1 potential original font
Agree, but these are not just demoscene fonts, for example I also found the fonts from the original Lemmings game(s) (https://github.com/ianhan/BitmapFonts/blob/main/lemblue.png) which were of course part of a commercial project. But as the games themselves are available as "abandonware" on various sites and Sony (who is sitting on the rights to the Lemmings franchise and not doing much with it) hasn't objected to that yet, I wouldn't worry too much...
In I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub

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