https://github.com/luizbills/font4x6
4x6 tiny monochrome bitmap font for rendering
https://github.com/luizbills/font4x6
bitmap-font c font rendering retro tiny
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4x6 tiny monochrome bitmap font for rendering
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/luizbills/font4x6
- Owner: luizbills
- License: unlicense
- Created: 2025-07-22T15:22:04.000Z (11 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-02T19:34:55.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-15T13:48:19.636Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: bitmap-font, c, font, rendering, retro, tiny
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 38.1 KB
- Stars: 6
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# 4x6 monochrome bitmap font for rendering
A simple and tiny 4x6 bitmap font.
[font4x6_basic.h](font4x6_basic.h) contains unicode points `U+0000` - `U+007F`.
> That second image have been scaled in 400% to improve visualization.
## Encoding
Every character in the font is encoded in 3 bytes.
Each byte represents 2 rows of a 4x6 grid and the least significant bit of each nibble corresponds to the first pixel in row.
E.g.: The character `'A'` (0x41 / 65) is encoded as `{ 0x25, 0x75, 0x50 }`
```
0x25 => 0010 0101 => .X..
X.X.
0x75 => 0111 0101 => XXX.
X.X.
0x50 => 0101 0000 => X.X.
....
```
## Renderer
To visualize the font, a simple renderer is included in [`render.c`](render.c)
```sh
$ gcc render.c -o render
$ ./render 65
X
X X
XXX
X X
X X
```
## Inspiration
This repository only exists thanks to:
- https://github.com/dhepper/font8x8
- https://alasseearfalas.itch.io/another-tiny-pixel-font-mono-3x5
## Projects using this font
- https://github.com/litecanvas/plugin-pixel-font - a plugin to display retro pixel fonts in the Litecanvas engine.
## LICENSE
This repository is (un)licensed under [Public Domain](LICENSE), so take it and do whatever you want with it. Credits are not required but much appreciated.