TypeFace / Character Set Image Data

8x12

8x8 C include file from Chris Eddy

8x6 from Philippe Lucidame

7x5 from Alice Campbell

5x7 landscape from Alice Campbell

4x6 from PK

The character set extractor by Nikolai Golovchenko and its sample files

Bitmap to table converter Opens FNT (Windows Bitmap Font) or BMP (Windows Bitmap Picture) files and writes out a C language data table.

BMP2ASM by John Gerthoffer of American AutoMatrix. Converts BMP, ICO, or WMF files into 8 bit high rows. Written as part of the Smart Stat project? Also available is a program that converts the output of BMP2ASM into a C array.

Windows Charset Editor from geocities.com/g13685/DMX_973_973B.html

A better 7 segment decoder with individual LEDs

MICR@ Barcode@ Calculator (Up side down 7 segment)

A subtile but important point is that character set encoding has nothing to do with the actual shape of the characters being encoded.

See:

• True Type Font Data Files
• C Language Character LCD Interface
• C language LCD interface example
• Translate right side up to upside down (rot180)
• Watermarking text

See also:

• https://hackaday.io/project/18445-brainfcktor/log/50032-new-start-character-generator-tables-in-144-bytes And entire 4x8 pixel character set in 144 bytes. James Newton of MassMind replies: A google sheets version has been started here:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u6zqFNge6mukWzv72dKhRjwrWkqPM1-MtmagKRP4_X4/edit#gid=0+

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• https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_sporka/sets/72157603022145653/ A very lovely 8 or 9 segment alphanumeric font. To develop things like this see:
  http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/excel/321702-click-event-shape-textbox.html
   
• /techref/member/softy-font/index.html A true type font editor.+
• http://www.technoblogy.com/show?3AJ7 Produce a double sized, but smoothed, font from a tiny font image.

    for (int j=1; j<3; j++) {
      if (((col0>>i & 0b11) == (3-j)) && ((col1>>i &0b11) == j)) {
        col0R = col0R | 1<<((i*2)+j);
        col1L = col1L | 1<<((i*2)+3-j);
        }
      }
  

  The variables col0 and col1 are two successive 8-pixel high columns in the normal-resolution character, and col0L, col0R, col1L, and col1R are the 16-pixel high left and right versions of these in the double-resolution character.

• http://janpeters.net/pics/stuff/alphabet.gif Interesting GIF animation showing the evolution of the alphabet. Not sure how accurate it is, but the presentation is nice.+
• http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/lcd.html download lcd-0.0.2.tar.gz
• http://redrival.com/mcgahee Father McGahee's truetype version of the Hatachi LCD font. Very nice for laying out the display on a PC prior to coding it on the uC.
• http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/originalfonts.html fonts
• http://www.dgibson.net/fun_and_humor/english2leet.html Javascript translates standard ASCII into leet (1337) on the fly.

Archive:

• PICList post "LED Matrix" Why were so many early fonts 5x7? +

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