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CLUSTER TERMINAL-BITMAP-FONT · 19 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2010-01-20

Retro terminal bitmap fonts

This cluster consists of bitmap and terminal fonts, many recreating classic terminal or video game typefaces, including specific models like DEC VT220, IBM 3270, and IBM 3161, as well as pixel art and programming fonts. Entries appeared sporadically from 2008 to 2026, with occasional months of two or three additions, but no overall trend. Traction leaders (by activity signal) are ttf-dotgothic16, xsg-fonts-bdf, and dwarffortress-terminal-fonts, though all have zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2008: 1JAN 2010: 1NOV 2011: 1NOV 2015: 1FEB 2016: 3FEB 2017: 1JUN 2017: 1NOV 2018: 1AUG 2019: 1SEP 2020: 1JAN 2022: 1MAR 2022: 1APR 2025: 1JUN 2025: 2MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1
DEC 2008JUN 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 · 7 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 19 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01tuimg0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal image viewer that approximates pictures as text using a custom glyph font derived from an image tokenizer's codebook.
  2. 02ttf-dotgothic160★4 moliveopen sourceFont recreation of the old 16x16 Gothic bitmap style for pixel-art text and retro design.
  3. 03xsg-fonts-bdf0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCondensed bitmap font set designed for use in Unicode-capable terminal emulators.
  4. 04dwarffortress-terminal-fonts0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCollection of fonts based on Dwarf Fortress custom tilesets for playing Dwarf Fortress in terminal text mode.
  5. 05bdf-boxxy0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBitmap font designed for terminal use to render text in console-based applications.
  6. 06otb-ibm31610★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMonospaced bitmap font from the IBM 3161 terminal packaged in OpenType Bitmap format.
  7. 07otf-wargames-terminal0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal fonts from a movie, used as a resource for terminal customization.
  8. 08ttf-wargames-terminal0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal display font recreating the glyphs shown on computer screens in a classic hacker movie.
  9. 09fontpreview_sixel0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal font previewer with Sixel support that uses fzf for interactive selection and ImageMagick for rendering.
  10. 10ttf-game-fonts0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCollection of over 200 fonts from classic video games for nostalgic typeface use.
  11. 11otf-manjari0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFont that supplies Malayalam Unicode glyphs with rounded terminals intended for body text.
  12. 12otf-unscii-80★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSet of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts, suitable for terminal use and programming.
  13. 13otf-unscii-16-full0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSet of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts, suitable for terminal use, programming, and character cell art.
  14. 14otf-unscii-8-fantasy0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSet of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts, suitable for terminal use, programming, and character cell art.
  15. 153270-fonts0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA font that recreates the look of IBM 3270 series terminal displays.
  16. 16ttf-dec-terminal-modern0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceFont recreation of the DEC VT220 terminal typeface for retro computing and terminal emulation.
  17. 17univga-bdf0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBitmap font package that provides a compatible display font for terminal emulator applications.
  18. 18gohufont0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBitmap font designed for programming and terminal use.
  19. 19ttf-atarismall0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA very small pixel font originally designed for a terminal emulator, used for compact text display.

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