pixel art software with good text tools
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Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 10:26pm
Topic: pixel art software with good text tools
Posted By: Cammera
Subject: pixel art software with good text tools
Date Posted: 18 June 2020 at 10:07pm
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No, seriously, is there any pixel art software with good text tools? Of what I've tested I found:
-Grafx2: Almost perfect, but can't do multiple lines -Aseprite: vector fonts only, no pixel fonts, no multiline. I have to go and fix kerning and characters always. -Lospec pixel editor/pyxeledit/piskel: No text tools at all. |
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 19 June 2020 at 1:14am
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GraphicsGale isn't too bad, but you have to find the right sizes for bitmap fonts if you want them correctly displayed |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 19 June 2020 at 2:27am
| In GrafX2; Use Ctrl-Return to add a linebreak. |
Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 19 June 2020 at 7:48am
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There is still much room for improvement in Grafx2.
I would mostly like an (optional) setting 'horizontal wrap at X pixels', wrapping entire words (cutting words is rarely useful). Very nice when you have to fit text in a 400px column. And many fonts would benefit from a setting of horizontal and vertical margins (between characters and lines, respectively). Negative vertical margins would be very useful for vector fonts especially, as they always have huge empty space between lines, some +/- buttons would let you squeeze the lines just as you need. |
Posted By: Cammera
Date Posted: 21 June 2020 at 6:35pm
I found a middle point by using bitmap fonts a https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts - bitmap fonts at a system level, but the formats in the repo I linked don't seem to be supported by grafx2 directly- support as a whole is spotty and shifts on a per-application basis, but I'll take what I can get.
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