bmGlyph – bitmap font generator.
bmGlyph is a tool which allow you to create nice bitmap fonts and use it in your game or application. (a bitmap font generator with a font atlas). Multiple resolution export with the same project, and support most of all frameworks including SpriteKit.
Main Features:
– Shaded material, color, glossy, gradient, or even import your own texture.
– Builtin textures
– Select fonts from your system or import any font file.
– Font replacement for the missing characters
– Cast Shadow with custom color and opacity. Inner or Outer shadow.
– Stroke with desired color / gradient and width. Inner, Outer or Center stroke. Miter/Round/Bevel style.
– Miter adjustment
– Work on selected glyphs only allows you to change the color or texture of each glyph.
– Preview mode: see how it render on different screens, or import (drag&drop) your own background.
– Customizable publish settings: add as much as targets as you want (ipadhd, ipad, iphone retina …), customize all the parameters (suffixes, scale etc…)
– AutoSize: finds the best texture size automatically.
– Export the preview text as a PNG file.
– Kerning support
– Hundreds of charset presets
– Bounding box adjustment & preview
– Fixed width
– Align on grid, and same bounding box height
– Configuration wizard
– SpriteBuilder support
– zoom in texture and preview mode
– iPhone 6 resolution support
Once published, the bitmap and the atlas font file can be used with the most famous game framework: spritekit, cocos2d, corona, sparrow, unity/ezgui… (bmfont format, xml)
Stop wasting your time designing yourself your text or creating multilangages version of the same button: start using bmGlyph !
