Amstrad CP/M Font Redefinition

Font Redefinition Tools

Software and articles relevant to redefining the screen or printer font under CP/M on the CPC, PCW or Spectrum +3.

• REDEFINE.RSX by Cliff Lawson
• PCW Characters by Richard Fletcher
• ALARM.BAS by Pete Gerrard
• Genecar by Cobra Soft
• UDG.BAS by John P. Stevenson
• LETAFONT by John P. Stevenson
• SETFONT by, um, me
• PRINTIT by MML Systems
• SCRCHAR.JOY Unicode mapping
• Supertype by Michael Wood
• LocoFont / LocoChar by Locomotive Software
• Tasprint by Tasman Software
• Polyprint by Arcom Software

An article in Popular Computing Weekly describes three tools that make use of custom printer fonts on the PCW: Tasprint, Polyprint and Gemini FontGem. The first two are addressed above; FontGem is an earlier name for Supertype, as described in The Complete Guide to the Amstrad PCW (issue 2).

Fonts

The individual articles each hold their own font collections, but here are some that don't fit so well with any particular article.

Font	Preview	Download
Default CP/M font		PCWFONT.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16 PCW.PSF: Combined 8x8 and 8x5 fonts in PSF format PCW8X8.PSF: 8x8 font only PCW8X5.PSF: 8x5 font only
Cliff Lawson's sans-serif font from REDEFINE.RSX		LAWSON.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16 LAWSON.PSF: Modified font in PSF format
Modified sans-serif font from NEWCHARS.COM		NEWCHARS.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16 NEWCHARS.PSF: Modified font in PSF format
GSANS sans-serif font (based on these codepages for DOS)		GSANSPCW.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16 GSANSPCW.PSF: Font in PSF format GSANSPCW.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format
TSANS sans-serif font (based on these codepages for DOS)		TSANSPCW.COM: Self-loading font for PCW, CPC, Spectrum +3 and PcW16 TSANSPCW.PSF: Font in PSF format TSANSPCW.UDG: Font in raw .UDG format