A downloadable tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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What is this

A set of tools to work with GBS fonts:

  • GBSFont2BG
  • GBSFontInverter
  • GBSFontJSON

With 166 GBS fonts included, ready to use!

GBSFont2BG

Create a background image for your GB Studio game with custom text, using any GB Studio font/s.

Useful for creating text for various screens in your game, such as the credits or logo screens, while maintaining consistency with the font used for dialogs in the game.

It can also be used to generate preview images of several GB Studio fonts at once, if no text.txt file is provided.

This software includes 166 GB Studio fonts ready to use, plus the inverted versions already generated. All fonts have licenses that allow commercial use. Some require attribution, see below.

Current limitations: it can only generate 160x144 images, no extended character support (á, ñ, etc), and you'll need to format your text with spaces.

GBSFontInverter

Create inverted versions of any number of GBS fonts at once.

GBSFontJSON

Automatically generate the required JSON files for GBS fonts.

How to use

1) Create a folder and copy there:

  • The GB Studio font/s
  • GBSFont2BG, GBSFontInverter or/and GBSFontJSON
  • Your text.txt file (only for GBSFont2BG)

2) Run the program/s

3) Done! Your background images/inverted fonts/json files are ready :)

Requirements

This software requires ImageMagick.

The macOS version is for the ARM64 architecture (Apple Silicon: M1, M2, etc). You can verify your Mac's chip type in 'About This Mac'.

Fonts included

The bitmap font files for GB Studio are adaptations that I've made of fonts that were created by different authors credited below.

The GB Studio fonts are licensed under the same license as the original fonts.
In short, as long as you don't distribute the fonts themselves:

  • you can use any of the included png fonts for commercial and non-commercial GB Studio games.
  • you can use any of the included ttf fonts for the promotional material, cover art, etc.
  • no credit is required except for the fonts licensed under the CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0

It would be nice if you give proper credit anyways, something like this:

  • The font "[GB Studio Font Name]" is an adaptation made by Santiago Crespo, based on "[Original Font Name]" by "[Original Font Author]".

or at least:

  • Font based on "Original Font Name" by "Original Font Author".

Font licenses that require full attribution

  • CC BY 4.0
  • CC BY-SA 3.0
  • CC BY-SA 4.0

Font licenses that don't require attribution

  • Bitstream Vera Fonts License
  • CC0 1.0 Universal
  • Custom minimal license
  • GPL-FE license
  • License derived from the Bitstream Vera Fonts License
  • MIT License
  • Public Domain
  • SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
  • SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 with Reserved Font Name
  • Unlicense

Credits

Updated 11 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryTool
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorSantiago Crespo
Made withGB Studio
Tags8x8, Fonts, game-boy, Game Boy, gbdk, gbs, gb-studio, gbstudio, monospace, tool

Purchase

Buy Now$5.99 USD or more

In order to download this tool you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

GBS Font Tools.zip 44 MB

Comments

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Thanks for this great tool.
However, it doesn't automatically splits lines that are too long.
Is it also possible to have new lines actually being seen as a new line instead of just a  "space"?

Thank you! Both issues are part of the current limitations (“you’ll need to format your text with spaces”). But I’m writing it down to work on it on the next update, thanks!

Hi, this looks great. Are the png files already included (So i can add it to gbstudio font folder) thnks

Hi, thank you! Yes, all the png and json files are included, ready to copy to the gbstudio font folder

great!