My first bitmap font for Devanagari Script (used for Hindi and several other Indian languages) has all the alphabets now. I've been working on it, on and off, for more than a year. I had completed almost half the alphabet and abandoned the project for some other tasks. Last week I decided to get back to it and finish the initial version.
Pixellated Bitmap fonts are really useful in low-res pixel art for games or pixel art illustrations in general. I was making a few pixel art illustrations for fun last year - and whenever I wanted to put in a Indian shopfront or some other Hindi label, I couldn't find a good low-res hindi bitmap font. So I decided to create one...
I've still got lots of things to do to take this project to completion...
- Name the font (looking for suggestions here)
- Convert the font from a bitmap font to TTF format so that it can be used for generic text.
- Try out various passages of text and make corrections to fix any errors in the way alphabets or words turn out.
But without further ado here's the image/sprite with all the common alphabets of Devanagari. I've left out the unused or obscure ones.
