HEX (Unifont)

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File Format
Name HEX (Unifont)
Ontology
Extension(s) .hex
Released 1998

HEX is a bitmap font format associated with the GNU Unifont project. It is a plain text-based format, and uses hex encoding. It is very limited, and used mainly as an intermediate format.

GNU Unifont is a project to create and maintain a free bitmap font containing all of the defined characters in Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane. Many non-BMP characters are also covered in some way, though they seem to be second-class citizens.

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  • Unifont (also here)
    • hex2bdf, bdfimplode, hex2sfd, unifontpic, unifont-viewer, etc.

Example

Glyph for ASCII capital 'A'.

0041:0000000018242442427E424242420000

Decoded to bitmap with 0 as "." and 1 as "@", this line gives :

   ........
   ........
   ........
   ........
   ...@@...
   ..@..@..
   ..@..@..
   .@....@.
   .@....@.
   .@@@@@@.
   .@....@.
   .@....@.
   .@....@.
   .@....@.
   ........
   ........


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