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Setfont

Setfont is my own contribution to font editing tools for the PCW, CPC and Spectrum +3. (It does not support the PcW16, which didn't exist at the time I wrote it; and since I never had a CPC, the CPC support is less than thoroughly tested).

SETFONT.COM itself is a command-line utility that loads or saves fonts in a variety of formats:

The package also contains ALTER (a font editor that works on the above systems) and SCRCHED (an editor for the LocoScript 2/3 screen font held in SCRCHAR.JOY).

I also created a set of sample fonts for SETFONT; originally this was distributed separately, but some PD libraries packaged the two together, so I am also listing them on this page.

Files

Fonts

All the fonts except Rounded include an 8×8 size for the PCW and CPC, and an 8×5 size for the Spectrum +3.

FontPreviewDownloadNotes
Bold
  • BOLD.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16
  • BOLD.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format
  • BOLD.PSF: Font in PSF format
Capitals A small-caps font.
IBM
  • IBM.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16
  • IBM.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format
  • IBM.PSF: Font in PSF format
A font using IBM's Codepage 437 rather than the usual PCW character mapping — intended for use if you want to view text files from a PC that make use of the IBM character set.
Italic
Joined-up Characters 253, 254 and 255 can be combined to form a flourish.
LCD
  • LCD.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16
  • LCD.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format
  • LCD.PSF: Font in PSF format
Rounded
Serif
Square 1
Square 2
Tiny
  • TINY.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16
  • TINY.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format
  • TINY.PSF: Font in PSF format

Other files


John Elliott 2020-01-09