UF Project – Unicode Bitmap Font Engine

The aim of UF Project is to create a simple engine for Amiga to display Unicode text using bitmap fonts. Note that I'm not going to introduce Unicode system-wide. Only applications explicitly using the engine will have Unicode capabilities.

Rationale

Why bitmap, while we have TrueType? – Vector fonts are nice, but:

• Look bad in low resolutions on palette based screens. TrueType hinting helps, but modern fonts are usually not hinted.
• Require more CPU power and memory. Bitmap Unicode fonts may be used even on bare Amiga 500.

Components

• uf.library, Display Engine
• ufconv.library, Text Encoding Converter
• UF Font Format Specification
• UFE, Font Editor

last updated: April 30, 2017