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fontedit

by smithothy

Cart #fontedit-0 | 2023-08-24 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

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Requires mouse & keyboard

This started off as: "I wonder if I can get the ZX Spectrum font into pico-8?"
I then realised that 16 chars per line isn't particularly practical, and wrote a font editor.

Features:

• edit, save, export fonts for use in pico-8
• change width & height of font characters
• adjust width per character
• cut, copy, paste, undo, nudge
• 8 internal save slots
• exports a .txt file to desktop that will run in pico-8 to use the font in other projects
• uses ZX Spectrum font as initial template

Limitations:

• save/export won't work in browser
• only edits the main 96 characters (i.e. Spectrum font)
• no undo on the file screen!
• fonts are saved internally to cart rom on exiting the file screen, cart must be saved to keep changes.
• can't load external fonts
• exported code is verbose, but I wanted to keep things readable.

That is very cool-can't wait to use this tool for a new game. Thank you so much for sharing!

What an awesome tool, thanks.

Thanks both, hope you find it useful. I was going to clear the save slots before posting, but forgot. I guess it doesn't hurt to have an example or two!

wow I've been needing something like this. I would personally like if it could edit all characters though. Which is 256-16 or something like that?