Simple tool to create a font file.

.gitignore

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 *.o
 src/test-map
+tools/make-font
 art/*.png
 art/test/*.png
+gfx/font/*.png

Makefile

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 all:
-	cd art && $(MAKE) all
 	cd src && $(MAKE) all
+	cd tools && $(MAKE) all
+	cd art && $(MAKE) all
+	cd gfx && $(MAKE) all
 
 clean:
+	cd gfx && $(MAKE) clean
 	cd art && $(MAKE) clean
+	cd tools && $(MAKE) clean
 	cd src && $(MAKE) clean
 

gfx/Makefile

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+
+all:
+	cd font && $(MAKE) all
+
+clean:
+	cd font && $(MAKE) clean
+

gfx/font/Makefile

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+
+all: ascii.png
+
+ascii.png:
+	../../tools/make-font | convert tga:- $@
+
+clean:
+	rm -f ascii.png
+

tools/Makefile

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+
+all: make-font
+
+make-font: make-font.o
+	g++ -g -Wall -O3 $^ -o $@ `pkg-config --libs caca`
+
+%.o: %.cpp
+	g++ -g -Wall -O3 -c $^ -o $@ `pkg-config --cflags caca`
+
+clean:
+	rm -f *.o make-font
+

tools/make-font.cpp

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+
+#include <caca.h>
+
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    caca_canvas_t *cv = caca_create_canvas(16, 16);
+    caca_set_color_ansi(cv, CACA_WHITE, CACA_TRANSPARENT);
+
+    for (unsigned int n = 0; n < 256; n++)
+        caca_put_char(cv, n % 16, n / 16, n);
+
+    size_t len;
+    void *buffer = caca_export_canvas_to_memory(cv, "tga", &len);
+    fwrite(buffer, len, 1, stdout);
+    free(buffer);
+
+    /* Free everything */
+    caca_free_canvas(cv);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+