I was struggling to find a 5px tall font I liked for some of my more detailed UI elements. So I made my own! It was way simpler than I expected thanks to the PixelForge tool I found. I love some of the more stylized letters, like A, C, G, O, P, S, and U (specifically the “lower” case letters).

This also opens up an awesome opportunity to create custom icons as part of the font that I can easily include in text :)

Sadly, it’s not easy to make special kern pairs (like for LT) with bitmap fonts. It kind of bugs me (look at ‘HEALTH’ above). But maybe some day I’ll circle back and see if I can make it work with glyph pair substitutes. It would require a much more feature rich tool to achieve.