General font format for embedded machines
Composed of dot-matrix-fonts and fonts that require less CPU usage
Bitmap Font
Dot-matrix-fonts composed of black and white values, suitable for small displays and low-end equipment.
Format
- Binary Data
- BDF Format
- TrueType embedded format
- Image file: 1 image file for 1 text / image for all characters at a glance
- Program Source (ex.: Header File)
Monochrome bitmap（1 bit per pixel）：
Capacity for each text = ［(W＋7) 8］×4H W: Width H: Height ［a］ is the largest integer that does not exceed the real number a
Font Specification
 Bitmap (24dot) |
 Gray Bitmap (24dot) |
 TrueType |
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Traditional Chinese Big5-2003 13,963 text |
950KB | 3,797KB |
Hei：4.6MB Yuan：7.2MB Song：8.1MB |
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Simplified Chinese GB18030 27,484 text |
1,933KB | ― |
Hei：8MB Ming：16.6MB Song：13.3MB Kai：21.8MB |
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Japanese JIS-X0201, JIS-X0208 7,468 text |
Binary：525KB BDF：2,237KB |
Binary：2,100KB |
Hei W2 ：2.1MB Hei W5 ：1.9MB Yuan ：3.5MB Ming ：4.2MB Girl font ：4.3MB |
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Korean KSX1001 8,322 text |
585KB | 2,340KB |
Hei：2.2MB Ming：3.7MB |
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European Languages Latin Set 1 Unicode (Basic Latin, Latin 1 subsidy, additional order) 245 text |
18KB | 72KB | Hei |
| European Languages Latin Set 2 | 24KB | 96KB | Hei |
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Unicode (Basic Latin, Latin 1 subsidy, Latin expansion AB, additional order) 343 text |
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| Cyrillic 256 text | 18KB | 56KB | Hei |
| Greek 144 text | 10KB | 68KB | Hei |
Text
| Latin Set 1 | Latin Set 2 | Cyril | Greece | |
| ISO 8859-1 | ○ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-2 | ─ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-3 | ─ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-4 | ─ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-5 | ─ | ─ | ○ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-7 | ─ | ─ | ─ | ○ |
| ISO 8859-9 | ○ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-10 | ─ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-15 | ○ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
| ISO 8859-16 | ─ | ○ | ─ | ─ |
Languages that require layout engine (Arabic/Thai/Vietnamese/Hindi/Hebrew)
Layout Engine + font TTF only provides fonts