Tools

BMFont

• BMFont .

• A popular Windows tool by AngelCode that generates bitmap fonts and accompanying metadata.

• It exports one or more bitmap atlases  plus a description file (text or XML) containing glyph positions, sizes, kerning pairs, etc., for use in games and GUIs.

• The author “AngelCode” created BMFont, and the term is often used interchangeably to refer to the tool or its file formats (e.g. the “AngelCode BMFont” text file format).

• It's a de facto standard for bitmap-font atlases with kerning and glyph metrics.