I needed a fixed size font for a cocos2d project. I didn’t want to use a ttf font but a simple png file. I found a nice Gimp plugin at http://soledadpenades.com to create such a font image.
I did some minor changes to modify the distance between the chars, download the changed version here.
Copy the unpacked .py file into ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins. You may change 3 lines to configure this plugin:
1 2 3 4 | char_begin = 46 char_end = 58 num_chars = char_end — char_begin yofs = 5 |
Using the settings above, you’ll create an image with the chars “./0123456789″ and a minus offset of 5 pixels between each char.
If you’re a Windows users you may also take a look at Codehead’s Bitmap Font Generator. This tool is similar to the Gimp plugin, just a bit more “polished”.
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1 sole wrote:
Hi there, glad you liked it!
By the way, funny favicon :D