Ultimate Bitmap Font Generator

Ultimate bitmap font generator - useful tool to create compact font textures for games

Author: scriptum

Feature list:

• multiple fonts may be packed into one texture
• extremely effective packing algorithm + subcharacters merging
• optimizied not only for English: generate Russian, Japanese, Chinese fonts
• easy-to-create characters list from text
• distance fields for easy OpenGL scalable fonts
• exporting kerning pairs
• free and open-source project
• UBFG can export font into XML format (image in base64 format also stored in XML) or into it's own .fnt format, - ready to use with Cheetah 2D engine. XML format is self-described, .fnt format uses following spec.

UBFG generates two files: font.png and font.fnt.

Project Page (RUS): http://www.gamedev.ru/projects/forum/?id=152527

Download

• Linux x86_64, checksum 34342e353b340afd7a283bed89bce4a6
• Linux x86, checksum 44dbc6b562a679d31a63b1d6a3ddfdcd
• Mac OS
• Windows, no viruses/false positive

GitHub/Source: http://github.com/scriptum/UBFG