#bitmapfont

There has been a very big increase in games that feature animated text. It is quite useful to convey emotion and pacing in games that have no voice acting. I’ve been very interested in such a system for a long time.

So, during my summer vacation, I decided to work on a similar system for learning purposes in my spare time. As I kept sharing my development on it, people kept asking where they could get it, so I took a little extra time to polish it and make it more usable to an end user, and made it available to the comunity at large.

You can learn more about it in its dedicated page.

THERMALITE A Fresh from the guts of the Epson TM-T20II, digitised straight off the roll. This is the thermal receipt printer’s own Font A — a fixed-width bitmap face built for transactions, voids, and voided transactions. The dot-burn texture is preserved: brittle, blocky, scorched into cheap stock at 203 dpi.

It sits somewhere between utilitarian receipt, early DOS terminal, and supermarket prophecy. Useful for zines, captions, labels, or simply to channel the blunt poetry of the checkout.