- Extension
- .bdf
- .dfont
- Format
- Text
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Font
- Developer
- Adobe
- Apple
- Description
- BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format) is a text-based file format for storing bitmap fonts, developed by Adobe. It encodes each glyph as a grid of pixels along with metadata such as character encoding, size, and spacing, using a human-readable ASCII format. It is commonly used on X Window System platforms for displaying bitmap fonts.
- Standard font format used by Mac OS X; font contents are stored in the data fork part of the file instead of the resource fork (which was used by fonts in Mac OS Classic).
- MIME Type
- application/x-font-bdf
- application/x-dfont
