Font Sets (FONTS.FNT)

Font definition files used for UI text rendering.

Extension: FONTS.FNT (game fonts), FONTS.UTL (editor fonts)
Location: Game root
Byte order: Little-endian (16-bit)
Size: Variable — 3 fonts; header at offset 0x00 (font_count word + 3 offset words)
Compression: None
Magic: None — font_count = 3 at 0x00
Status: Partial
Source: Wendigo — X.fnt.xml

Canonical source: X.fnt.xml (Wendigo’s Darklands repo)

Files

File	Description
`FONTS.FNT`	Main game fonts (3 fonts)
`FONTS.UTL`	Editor fonts (possibly unused in shipping game)

File Layout

Offset 0x00:  word    font_count = 3
Offset 0x02:  word[3] font_data_offsets  — file offset to the pixel data of each font

Font Definition Structure

Each font’s header precedes its pixel data. Given font_data_offset for a font:

Location	Size	Field	Description
`offset - 8 - n`	n	`character_widths[]`	Per-character pixel width; n = `end_char_code - start_char_code + 1` bytes
`offset - 0x08`	1	`start_char_code`	ASCII code of the first defined character
`offset - 0x07`	1	`end_char_code`	ASCII code of the last defined character
`offset - 0x06`	1	`char_data_width`	Character data width in bytes (bitmap row stride)
`offset - 0x04`	1	`char_height`	Character height in pixels
`offset - 0x03`	1	`char_spacing`	Horizontal spacing between characters (= 1)
`offset - 0x02`	1	`line_spacing`	Vertical spacing between lines (= 1)
`offset`	varies	`font_data`	Pixel bitmap data

Pixel Data Layout

Size: character_count × char_data_width × char_height bytes.

Characters are stored in order, row by row. Each row of each character occupies char_data_width bytes. Pixels are stored as bits (1 = set, 0 = clear).

Confidence

Medium-high. Documented in X.fnt.xml.