Time for action – using bmGlyph to create a bitmap font
To create our first bitmap font, we just need to follow these steps:
Open bmGlyph.
Select Arial Rounded MT Bold as the font.
Set Font size to 72 points.
Scroll down to the Color Tools section and check Shadow.
In the Shadow pane, set the x property to 2, the y property to -2, and the radius to 8.
In the Fill Mode section, select a brown-yellowish color and select the Glossy checkbox.
Hit the Publish button.
In the Default target, enter
PirateFontas the File Name and font name (Force Font Name). In the Suffix input box, add@4x.Click on the 50 button inside the Duplicate with scale box and add the suffix
@2x.Click on the 25 button.
Select Sparrow in the Format drop-down list.
Make sure that PirateFont is displayed in all of the targets as the File Name and in Force Font Name.
Hit Publish and then the Close button.
After these steps, we should see the following screen:
What just happened?
After we opened bmGlyph, we set the base font, size, color...