ashkel / sudofont

Bitmap font texture page generator for apps and games

SudoFont makes it easy to generate bitmap fonts from any Windows font.

The intent is to make it as easy as possible to add low-memory, fast-loading, compact fonts to any app or game.

Features:

• Packs the characters into a power-of-two image that is as close to square as possible.

• Includes C# source code to load, layout, and display the bitmap font at runtime, assuming you're rendering them in a graphics package like DirectX or OpenGL.

• SudoFont will access both the .NET font APIs (in DotNetFontSystem.cs) as well as the older Win32 APIs (in Win32FontSystem.cs). The latter is necessary to access certain fonts.

• Includes kerning information (and sample code to use it).

• Supports text rendering hints (ClearType, Antialias, etc).

• Can render the text with gradients. (Future work is to allow any filters on the text).

• Hover preview: Renders a preview of the current font to the side of the main window so you can hover it over your software to see how it looks without exporting.

Map:

• DotNetFontSystem.cs and Win32FontSystem.cs: code to access Windows fonts themselves (In the program, use the Font System menu to alternate between them).

• RuntimeFont class: code to load a font at runtime

• FontLayout class: code to layout characters