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CLUSTER BITMAP-DESKTOP-FONT · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2006-06-16

Desktop bitmap font editors

This cluster consists of desktop applications for creating and editing fonts, with a focus on bitmap fonts and conversion between formats. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from – it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are spriteglypher, FontForge, and gbdfed, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2006: 1NOV 2020: 1MAY 2026: 1
JUN 2006MAY 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 1 unlabelled

Operator · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01FontForge0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing outline and bitmap fonts, supporting conversion between multiple font formats.
  2. 02spriteglypher0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop bitmap font editor that creates fonts with layered effects and exports PNG sprite atlases.
  3. 03gbdfed0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing bitmap font files.

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