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I know several people already created TTF fonts, but I believe this goes slightly beyond.

This cart is a tool that vectorises the PICO-8 font and exports it to %APPDATA%/pico-8/carts/font.sfd.p8l . You can then open that file in FontForge and modify it to your will, then export it as TrueType, PostScript etc.

It should be fully forward-compatible and if Zep ever changes a glyph, then the resulting TTF file will change accordingly.

For instance, if you are lucky enough to have a PICO-8 Gold Account™ and the latest preview version with the chr() function and the kana glyphs you’ll even get Japanese support:

Here it is in action in the Windows font settings:

And here it is in a toy application:

Cart #makefont-0 | 2019-12-03 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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That "toy application" in the third screenshot looks neat! What's it made in? (Definitely not asking because I want to recreate it for my own Fantasy Console idea, nope)

@Darxoon @TheV360 it’s an IDE/emulator project written in C++. The IDE does not work very well yet but the emulator is very close to the real thing.

can I download it anywhere (except for the sources, I have no idea how to compile it)

SAM YOU RULEZ ❤️
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@samhocevar
I have added an export function that supports custom fonts to your cart.

Cart #makefont_c-1 | 2023-09-27 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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The configuration parameters for custom fonts are as follows.

 
custom_slwidth=6 --scan width the font sprite 
custom_shwidth=6 --scan width the font sprite 
custom_sheight=8 --scan height the font sprite 
custom_lwidth=6 --print width for low chr id
custom_hwidth=6 --print width for high chr id
custom_lheight=12 --print height for high chr id
custom_uplowswap=false --swap uppercase and lowercase
custom_filename='knutil-w5h7'

exported custom font (knutil-w5h7)



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