Playdate Font Tool — convert and tune fonts for your game

SDK Development Discussion
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This is a free browser-based tool for turning regular font files into Playdate-ready bitmap fonts:

Open Playdate Font Workshop

Features include:

  • Convert TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files
  • Choose from a library of built-in fonts
  • Adjust size, weight, spacing, and individual character pairs
  • Preview text on a Playdate-sized screen
  • Inspect the generated bitmap atlas
  • Download the finished .fnt and font-table files together

It’s free to use. I’d love for other Playdate developers to try it and let me know what would make it more useful.

This tool builds on the excellent pdfontconv project by Frozen Fractal, with a revamped interface and workflow. Much respect and thanks for making the original available.

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Looks great! Thank you for making my hacky weekend project more useful for everyone!

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the goat is here! haha one man’s hacky weekend project is another man’s… hacky weekend project but with a strong starting point!

thank you, homie. your tool helped me a while ago. the code hadn’t been updated in a while, thought i’d give it a go.

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We needed this. I certainly need this. Thank you guys so much!

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please let me know if there’s any issues or if you have requests for the tool! :yellow_heart: