https://github.com/xyproto/burnfont

Hand-crafted 6x6 pixel font, defined by code
https://github.com/xyproto/burnfont

font mode13h pixel-font

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Hand-crafted 6x6 pixel font, defined by code

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xyproto/burnfont
• Owner: xyproto
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2019-10-10T13:32:38.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-26T19:43:51.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-05T15:28:55.163Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: font, mode13h, pixel-font
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 101 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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This is a hand-crafted 6x6 pixel font, defined by code, originally created in 1997.

Here is a generated image with all available letters in this font:

![letters](img/letters.png)

Here is the same image, but scaled up 4x:

![scaled](img/scaled.png)

The font is a bit nostalgic to me, and was used in my small DOS drawing program named *Burn*. The palette that came with *Burn* is [available here](https://github.com/xyproto/burnpalette). The GUI was drawn with 320x200 pixels, 256 indexed colors (`mode 13h`), and looked like this:

![burn screenshot](img/burn.png)

The font definition looks like this:

```go

case 'k':

    fontLine("***", x, y)

    fontLine("-**", x, y+1)

    fontLine("**-**", x+1, y+2)

    fontLine("****-", x+1, y+3)

    fontLine("-**-**", x, y+4)

    fontLine("*** **", x, y+5)

```

`*` is a 100% opaque pixel, while `-` is a 25% opaque one (mostly transparent).

## Contents

This Go package has a slice `Available` that lists all available runes. There is also a `Draw` function that takes an `*image.RGBA` value, a rune, a position (x and y) and a color (r, g and b) and draws a letter at that position in the image.

* The `cmd/scaled` example outputs an image where each "pixel" of the font is 4x4 pixels.

* The `cmd/letters` example outputs an image where each pixel is a pixel.

* The `cmd/txt2png` example can render text as a PNG image.

## Generating an image

The `scaled` utility can be built and run like this:

    cd cmd/scaled

    go build

    ./scaled

## General information

* License: MIT

* Version: 1.2.2

* Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <[email protected]>