Provides functions for creating, modifying, and displaying bitmaps including printing them in the terminal. There is a special emphasis on monochrome bitmap fonts and their glyphs as well as colored pixel art/sprites. Provides native read/write support for the 'hex' and 'yaff' bitmap font formats and if 'monobit' <https://github.com/robhagemans/monobit> is installed can also read/write several additional bitmap font formats.
| Version: |
2.2.1 |
| Imports: |
cli, grDevices, grid, png, Unicode, utils |
| Suggests: |
colorfast (≥ 1.0.1), farver, gridpattern, hexfont (≥
0.5.1), knitr, magick, mazing, ragg, rmarkdown, testthat, vdiffr, withr |
| Published: |
2026-01-29 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.bittermelon |
| Author: |
Trevor L. Davis 
[aut, cre],
Frederic Cambus [tyg] (Developer of included 'Spleen' font),
Markus Kuhn [tyg] (Maintainer of included 'Fixed' font),
josehzz [art] (Artist of included 'Farming Crops 16x16' sprites) |
| Maintainer: |
Trevor L. Davis <trevor.l.davis at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/trevorld/bittermelon/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://trevorldavis.com/R/bittermelon/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| SystemRequirements: |
'monobit' for reading/writing additional bitmap
font formats. |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
bittermelon results |