doom text generator — last updated 2024-08-27

[Eevee]

https://c.eev.ee/doom-text-generator/

 

this is my doom text generator.  it generates doom text, as you might expect.  in a web browser!  science is amazing.

 

i don't think i had a doomworld account last time i updated it, but now i do, so here is a post.

i'm putting this in Resources because its primary purpose is to turn resources (fonts) into more resources (images).

 

i do encourage replying to this thread with doom text but ONLY if it's funny

 

source code on github

 

 

 

• it generates doom text.  i really can't stress this enough
• bunch of fonts, or load your own from a wad, such as valiant.wad, or...  um...  valiant.wad
• recolor text with zdoom's font translation algorithm, including defining your own gradient if graphic design is your passion
• if you know what kerning is you can change that
• you can generate a bunch of CWILVs at once by slapping in all your level names (one per line) and hitting "bulk download".
  probably set "escapees" to "shrink to fit" to reduce unnecessary vertical space
• it might even work on a phone?

 

 

(newest first)

 

2024-08-27:

• taught the "randomize" button to make random custom gradients too
• fixed a couple bugs in WAD parsing because apparently i broke everything when i did unicode fonts and somehow didn't notice

 

2024-08-25:

• fixed word wrap
• added support for loading unicode fonts in a filter directory
• fixed loading unicode fonts made out of doom graphics
• fixed a bug where text containing empty lines would sometimes produce an empty image

 

2024-08-22:

• restored BIGFONT
• fixed the space width for BIGFONT and BIGUPPER.  it's been one pixel too narrow this whole time.  everyone's level names are wrong argh!!
• fixed two microscopic UI bugs you probably never noticed

 

2024-08-20 B:

• added support for gzdoom's "unicode fonts"
• added a twiddle for handling the height of a line
• added a bulk download button
• fixed freedoom's license
• taught custom lump-based fonts to correctly scan their lightness range
• fixed positioning of glyphs that escape above the top of the line
• fixed the scrolling so tall text can't vanish off the top of the screen

 

2024-08-20:

• added the hacx, freedoom, and chex quest bigfonts
• added just a truly fucking ridiculous number of jimmy fonts
• rewrote my lump montager thing to require vastly less manual effort to add a new "bunch of lumps" font
• added a little info button next to each font so you know where it came from and that you technically shouldn't be using it (spoilers it's mostly id or jimmy)
• added support for "bunch of lumps" fonts in PK3s
• added support for "bunch of lumps" fonts where the lumps are PNGs
• "bunch of lumps" fonts now actually use the lumps' sprite offsets haha whoops!!
• the doom 2 palette was a bit fucked up but now it's not

 

2024-08-18:

• half a dozen new fonts, courtesy of james paddock. more coming...  later?  soon?  sometime.  there is effort involved
• you can load whatever doom fonts your heart desires from a WAD or PK3...  maybe.  there are a lot of font formats, some don't work yet
• you may now define a custom color translation, thanks to the laziest gradient editor you have ever seen in your life
• you can add padding to the final image directly
• fixed some cases where word wrap didn't work so good and could leave extraneous space at the end of a line or cut off a character
• less clutter — fonts are now just, you know, named in their font
• there's a favicon now!  that's cool.  i kept losing my tab

 

Edited August 28 by Eevee : update 2024-08-27

[Craneo]

good tool 👍

[Eevee]

alright well there's nowhere to go but up

[elf-alchemist]

2 hours ago, Eevee said:

• half a dozen new fonts, courtesy of james paddock. more coming...  later?  soon?  sometime.  there is effort involved
• you can load whatever doom fonts your heart desires from a WAD or PK3...  maybe.  there are a lot of font formats, some don't work yet
• you may now define a custom color translation, thanks to the laziest gradient editor you have ever seen in your life
• you can add padding to the final image directly
• fixed some cases where word wrap didn't work so good and could leave extraneous space at the end of a line or cut off a character
• less clutter — fonts are now just, you know, named in their font
• there's a favicon now!  that's cool.  i kept losing my tab

You have no idea how much happiness the support for any arbitrary font will bring to the world. Thank you so much Eevee.

[Eevee]

2 minutes ago, elf-alchemist said:

You have no idea how much happiness the support for any arbitrary font will bring to the world. Thank you so much Eevee.

hope it's useful!  the previous approach of "DM me asking me to add your particular font, which i then forget to do" was not really sustainable

[Devalaous]

Ive been using this tool a LOT for my patches (Seriously, ive generated HUNDREDS of CWILVs and M_EPI lumps for older works). Nice to see a thread for it!

[elf-alchemist]

8 minutes ago, Eevee said:

hope it's useful!  the previous approach of "DM me asking me to add your particular font, which i then forget to do" was not really sustainable

If it didn't already carry the doom community on it's back, this certainly pushes it over that line.
 

Spoiler

Thank you for carrying all of us in your back all of these years.
 

[LouigiVerona]

@Eevee And could you talk about how the Doom Text Generator works? Are you using ttf files or bitmaps? As a web dev myself, I'm curious how you made it look so seamless!

[Matthias]

Well, 90 % of my graphic designs for my project is using this tool, lol

[smeghammer]

This is neat! 

 

Do you have a source for the fonts you have used? I have some TTF ones listed/downloadable here, but it would be cool to also use the Heretic etc. ones.

[DoomGappy]

Pretty good tool, I've used it before to estimate intermission text lengths and also for CWILV graphics. Thanks a lot!

[Walter confetti]

Oh, what a beautiful addings, especially Doom 93 looks to be super useful!

[giwake]

Oh my god, I can't believe this thread comes out a WEEK after i spent an HOUR manually dragging and dropping letters from the development materials in the id vault to make a poster.

 

anyway, here's me being a mature adult

 

 

 

Edited August 19 by giwake

[Perfect Bear]

 

 

 

...I may have a use for this. Yesss.

Edited August 19 by Perfect Bear

[Gaia74]

I knew of this tool way before and used it many times, really useful and glad to see it got updated!

[Mark Bloom]

Where have you been with that like a week ago?!

 

 

Awesome tool!

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

One of the most useful sites/tools for doom modding, absolutely essential. Big thanks, Eevee

[Bald Cyberdemon]

[antares031]

 

The font uploading system is truly phenomenal. Much appreciated for such a helpful online tool!

[myolden]

Wow, this was already a super useful tool but now it's even more useful. Thank you Eevee!

[Ludi]

 

Wait, this isn't one of the fonts

[Breezeep]

[mrthejoshmon]

Pretty good tool, useful for title screens and artworks, also am I witnessing a live Oppenheimer moment right now?

With that said:

[Mr. Freeze]

announcing my new project

[HiMyNameIsChair]

oh hey, that's pretty good! 

[Gothic]

[stephyesterday]

[Adamantium]

I love the new update, you should consider adding the Wolfenstein "Get psyched!" font.

[Andrea Rovenski]

awesome update, thanks so much for the wonderful resource

[esselfortium]

This is fantastic, thank you! Being able to use custom fonts with this will save me a lot of trouble in the future.