A very tiny bitmap font

The sprites are 6×7 including a 1px margin on the right and bottom edges. The margin is occasionally tapped into by descenders (g, j, p, q, ƒ, Ç, φ, џ, comma, semicolon, etc.), box-drawing characters, and other symbols that just wouldn't consistently compress below 6×7 (↔, ↨, √, etc.).

I have crafted thus far all characters in IBM 437, Windows-1252, and the Macintosh Cyrillic codepage.

(Original work; hereby published under a dual license CC0+WTFPL.)

Could be useful for very small LCD displays, or for fitting an entire movie script on your monitor at once.

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It is not finished yet; my next goal is to figure out how to create one of these so I can actually use the thing… then I'll worry about adding more characters. (Fontforge is waay too sophisticated for this use-case, though, so it has ended up screwing up the font every time I tried to render an .obt file: the letters all had "shaved tops", and the UI element to set their height manually was greyed-out. Hmm…)

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Appendices

Compiler

from PIL import Image
import struct, csv, gzip

# USAGE:
#	python3 make_psf.py 6x7 cp437_tinyfont.gif unicode_cp437.tsv 437-Handmade5x6.psf2.gz && setfont -v 437-Handmade5x6.psf2.gz
#	python3 make_psf.py 6x7 cp437_tinyfont.gif unicode_x1252.tsv x1252-Handmade5x6.psf2.gz && setfont -v x1252-Handmade5x6.psf2.gz


PSF2_MAGIC = b'\x72\xb5\x4a\x86'
PSF2_HAS_UNICODE_TABLE = 0b1
PSF2_MAXVERSION = 0
PSF2_SEPARATOR = b'\xFF'
PSF2_STARTSEQ = b'\xFE'

psf2_header = struct.Struct('<4sIiIII2I')

# PCF IS WIP NOT YET IMPLEMENTED #
# https://fontforge.org/docs/techref/pcf-format.html
PCF_MAGIC = b'\x01FCP'

PCF_PROPERTIES = 0b000000001
PCF_ACCELERATORS = 0b000000010
PCF_METRICS = 0b000000100
PCF_BITMAPS = 0b000001000
PCF_INK_METRICS = 0b000010000
PCF_BDF_ENCODINGS = 0b000100000
PCF_SWIDTHS = 0b001000000
PCF_GLYPH_NAMES = 0b010000000
PCF_BDF_ACCELERATORS = 0b100000000

PCF_DEFAULT_FORMAT = 0x000
PCF_INKBOUNDS = 0x200
PCF_ACCEL_W_INKBOUNDS = 0x100
PCF_COMPRESSED_METRICS = 0x100

PCF_GLYPH_PAD_MASK = 0b000011
PCF_BYTE_MASK = 0b000100
PCF_BIT_MASK = 0b001000
PCF_SCAN_UNIT_MANK = 0b110000

pcf_header_1 = struct.Struct('<4sI')
pcf_header_2 = struct.Struct('<IIII')

def im2glyphs(im, w, h):
	for y in range(0, im.height, h):
		for x in range(0, im.width, w):
			yield im.crop((x, y, x+w, y+h))

def _makeheader(glyphs, *, ver=PSF2_MAXVERSION, flags=0):
	n = len(glyphs)
	assert len(set(glyph.size for glyph in glyphs)) == 1
	w, h = glyphs[0].size
	glyphsize = h * ((w + 7) // 8)
	#glyphsize = -(w * h // -8)
	return psf2_header.pack(PSF2_MAGIC, ver, psf2_header.size, flags, n, glyphsize, h, w)

def _makebody(glyphs):
	assert len(set(glyph.size for glyph in glyphs)) == 1
	for glyph in glyphs:
		yield glyph.convert('1').tobytes()

def _makeuctable(unicodemap):
	for position in unicodemap:
		for sequence in position:
			yield PSF2_STARTSEQ
			yield sequence.encode("utf-8")
		yield PSF2_SEPARATOR

def makepsf2(size, im, out, unicodemap=None):
	global glyphs # for debugging, run python -i 
	glyphs = list(im2glyphs(im, *size))
	flags = 0
	if unicodemap is not None:
		flags |= PSF2_HAS_UNICODE_TABLE
	else:
		assert len(glyphs) == 256
	out.write(_makeheader(glyphs, flags=flags))
	for chunk in _makebody(glyphs):
		out.write(chunk)
	if unicodemap is not None:
		for chunk in _makeuctable(unicodemap):
			out.write(chunk)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	import sys
	size = map(int, sys.argv[1].split('x'))
	im = Image.open(sys.argv[2])
	with open(sys.argv[3], 'r') as f:
		r = csv.reader(f, delimiter='\t')
		unicodemap = list(r)
		if unicodemap[0][0] == '':
			unicodemap[0][0] = '\u0000'
		if unicodemap[255][0] == '\x20' and unicodemap[0x20][0] == '\x20':
			unicodemap[255][0] = '\u00A0'
	with gzip.open(sys.argv[4], 'wb') as f:
		makepsf2(size, im, f, unicodemap)

datafiles

CP437 Unicode Table

""
☺
☻
♥
♦
♣
♠
•
◘
○
◙
♂
♀
♪	𝅘𝅥𝅮
♫
☼
►	▶	▸
◄
↕	ᛨ
‼
¶
§
▬
↨
↑	ᛏ
↓
→
←
∟
↔
▲
▼
" "
!	ǃ	ⵑ
""""
#
$
%	٪	⁒
&
'	ʻ	ʹ	ˈ	ʹ	ᑊ	ꞌ
(	❲
)	❳
*	∗	𐌟
+
,	¸	؍	‚	ꓹ
-	˗	‐	‑
.	܁	܂	․	ꓸ	𝅭
/	᜵	∕	〳	𝈺
0
1
2
3	З	Ӡ
4
5
6	б
7
8
9
:	ː	˸	։	׃	܃	܄	ः	ઃ	᛬	᠃	᠉	⁚	∶	ꓽ	꞉	︰	：
;	;
<	ᐸ	𝈶
=
>	ᐳ	𖼿	𝈷
?
@
A	Α	А
B	Β	В
C	Ϲ	С
D
E	Ε	Е
F
G
H	Η	Н
I	Ι	І	Ӏ
J	Ј
K	Κ	К
L
M	Μ	М
N	Ν
O	Ο	О
P	Ρ	Р
Q	Ԛ
R
S	Ѕ	Ꚃ
T	Τ	Т
U
V
W	Ԝ
X	Χ	Х
Y	Υ	Ү
Z	Ζ
[
\
]
^	˄	ˆ
_
`
a	а
b
c	с
d
e	е
f
g
h	һ
i	і
j	ј
k	κ
l
m
n
o	ο	о
p	р
q	ԛ
r
s	ѕ
t
u
v
w	ԝ
x	х
y	γ	у	ү
z
{
|	ӏ
}
~
⌂	🏠
Ç
ü
é
â
ä	ӓ
à
å
ç	ς	ҫ
ê
ë	ё
è	ѐ
ï	ϊ	ї
î
ì
Ä	Ӓ
Å	Å
É
æ	ӕ
Æ	Ӕ
ô
ö	ӧ
ò
û
ù
ÿ	ӱ
Ö	Ӧ
Ü
¢
£
¥
₧
ƒ
á
í
ó
ú
ñ
Ñ
ª
º
¿
⌐
¬
½
¼
¡
«
»
░
▒
▓
│
┤
╡
╢
╖
╕
╣
║
╗
╝
╜
╛
┐
└
┴
┬
├
─
┼
╞
╟
╚
╔
╩
╦
╠
═
╬
╧
╨
╤
╥
╙
╘
╒
╓
╫
╪
┘
┌
█
▄
▌
▐
▀
α
ß	β
Γ	Г	Г
π
Σ
σ
µ	μ
τ	ꚍ
Φ	Ф
Θ	Ѳ	Ө
Ω	Ω
δ
∞	ꚙ
φ
ε	є	ɛ
∩
≡	Ξ
±
≥
≤
⌠
⌡
÷
≈
°
∙
·	𐩐	٠	۰
√
ⁿ
²
■
" "

x1252 Unicode Table

○
■
↑	ᛏ
↓
→
←
║
═
╔
╗
╚
╝
░
▒
►	▶	▸
◄
│
─
┌
┐
└
┘
├
┤
┴
┬
♦
┼
█
▄
▀
▬
" "
!	ǃ	ⵑ
""""
#
$
%	٪	⁒
&
'	ʻ	ʹ	ˈ	ʹ	ᑊ	ꞌ
(	❲
)	❳
*	∗	𐌟
+
,	¸	؍	ꓹ
-	˗	‐	‑
.	܁	܂	․	ꓸ	𝅭
/	᜵	∕	〳	𝈺
0
1
2
3	З	Ӡ
4
5
6	б
7
8
9
:	ː	˸	։	׃	܃	܄	ः	ઃ	᛬	᠃	᠉	⁚	∶	ꓽ	꞉	︰	：
;	;
<	ᐸ	𝈶
=
>	ᐳ	𖼿	𝈷
?
@
A	Α	А
B	Β	В
C	Ϲ	С
D
E	Ε	Е
F
G
H	Η	Н
I	Ι	І	Ӏ
J	Ј
K	Κ	К
L
M	Μ	М
N	Ν
O	Ο	О
P	Ρ	Р
Q	Ԛ
R
S	Ѕ	Ꚃ
T	Τ	Т
U
V
W	Ԝ
X	Χ	Х
Y	Υ	Ү
Z	Ζ
[
\
]
^
_
`
a	а
b
c	с
d
e	е
f
g
h	һ
i	і
j	ј
k	κ
l
m
n
o	ο	о
p	р
q	ԛ
r
s	ѕ
t
u
v
w	ԝ
x	х
y	γ	у	ү
z
{
|	ӏ
}
~

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‚
ƒ
„
…
†
‡
ˆ	˄
‰
Š
‹
Œ

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‘
’
“
”
•
–
—
˜
™
š
›
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ž
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¡
¢
£
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¥
¦
§
¨
©
ª
«
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®
¯
°
±
²
³
´
µ	μ
¶
·
¸
¹
º
»
¼
½
¾
¿
À
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Â
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Ä	Ӓ
Å	Å
Æ	Ӕ
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Ë
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Í
Î
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Ñ
Ò
Ó
Ô
Õ
Ö
×
Ø
Ù
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Ý
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ä	ӓ
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ô
õ
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