What licenses are the tools and the font? There doesn't seem to be a copyright statement or license anywhere. Maybe I am missing something obvious...
Looks very interesting. I had an idea for a bitmap font yesterday, so it is perfect timing. I have some additional tools in mind, but I would like to know the license first.
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> On Dec 22, 2015, at 12:25 PM, mpu <quentin_AT_c9x.me> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I wrote some tools to design bitmap fonts. Maybe you'll
> be interested.
>
> http://github.com/mpu/fnt/
>
> (I know, it's Github, I'll move it some place
> reasonable if there's interest.)
>
> Two C programs, 'edit' and 'view', allow respectively to
> edit one glyph and view a text with the font currently
> being designed. The 'view' tool can get bitten by SIGHUP
> signals to refresh the view. To do this automatically
> when the font gets changed, I made a little shell script
> that uses inotify-tools to monitor the font directory
> energy-efficiently, it is 'watch.sh'. When done editing
> use the '2bdf.sh' shell script to convert the font to
> BDF (usable by X11). It does not work for fonts wider
> than 8 pixels, though, so you might have to patch it.
>
> The font format is I think suckless, a font is simply
> stored in a directory named WxH where W and H are the
> pixel dimensions of the font. Each glyph is then
> stored as an ASCII file named U+NNNN where NNNN is the
> Unicode codepoint of the glyph. Here is what is stored
> in 7x10/U+0041 (glyph 'A') for the leon font
>
> .......
> .xxx...
> x...x..
> x...x..
> xxxxx..
> x...x..
> x...x..
> x...x..
> .......
> .......
>
> That way, a font can be stored using git and edited
> using standard text-editors in a reasonable way.
>
> I now use the font (leon) packaged in the git repo,
> it was pretty fun to design.
>
> -- mpu
>
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