About Alphabit Studio

Alphabit Studio is a browser-based bitmap font editor for monochrome glyphs. It is designed for cases where the pixel result is the final font output, not an intermediate sketch before vector cleanup.

Core Model

• glyphs are stored as explicit bitmap pixels
• fonts have shared vertical metrics
• fonts can be fixed-width or variable-width
• specimen preview is part of the editing flow, not a separate afterthought

What The App Is Good At

• editing bitmap fonts for small screens and constrained systems
• importing practical bitmap source formats directly into one editable model
• keeping spacing, metrics, and glyph shape explicit
• exporting embedded-code formats and orthogonal outline deliverables

Current Format Direction

The app supports direct bitmap import families such as packed C arrays, BDF, Apple bitmap `.dfont`, Windows raster `.fon` / `.fnt`, Playdate `.fnt`, Adafruit `GFXfont`, and TFT_eSPI bitmap sources. It also imports outline `.otf` / `.ttf` / `.woff` / `.woff2` fonts by rasterising them into the bitmap model.

Export targets currently include packed C outputs, BDF, Adafruit `GFXfont`, Playdate `.fnt`, orthogonal outline OTF, and UFOZ.

Design Approach

The editor is intentionally literal. It does not try to hide the bitmap grid behind smoothing or layout magic. Conversions between formats are explicit about loss where a target format cannot represent the full source model.

State Of The Product

Alphabit Studio is still early. The core editing model is real and the import/export surface is already broad, but some areas are still being refined, especially documentation depth, some utility-window UI, and the rough edges of more complex format conversions.