Editing XMB Fonts

=Description=

In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography typography], a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface font family] (also known as typeface) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph glyphs] that share common design features

PS3 fonts are made by [http://fontworks.co.jp Fontworks] Japan (for SCE-PS3 Rodin/NewRodin/SEURAT/Matisse JPN/LATIN/EXT Bold/Regular/Italic), [http://dynacomware.net dynacomware] (for DFHeiW5-A), [https://www.urwpp.de/english/home.html urwpp] (for VAGRundschriftDLig, VAGRundschriftDLig2 and the Sony-CC), [http://www.yoondesign.com yoondesign] (for SCE-PS3 YD gd Bold, SCE-PS3 YD gd Light and SCE-PS3 YD gd Medium)

In PS3 firmware 2.00 it was added a feature that allows the user to select the font style in [[XMB]] column {{icon category settings}}->[''Theme settings'']->[''Font''] from the default "original", "rounded", or "pop". This same setting can be modifyed by installing a [[PlayStation 3 Theme (P3T)|.p3t theme]] and theoretically the setting should be stored in the list of "user settings" inside [[XRegistry.sys]]

 

The font file that will be used to display the texts is chosen by the PS3 firmware based on the [[Languages|language]] setting

 

Some parts of the firmware specifies the font style that will be used by using a "font family" as can be seen in [[RCOXML Fonts]], there is not a known complete list of all the font families used by the system though. And is possible to change color, size, shadow and other text effects in the [[RCOXML Objects]] related

 

Some error codes are specific for fonts as [[Error_Codes#Debug_errors|Debug font error codes]], and [[Error_Codes#Font_errors|Font error codes]] where can be seen how the firmware uses the codenames "fontset" and "glyph"

 

 

**Go to "start" (or windows key+x) /open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), click in "run" and type: '''charmap''', then enter

 

 

 

 

 

! rowspan=2 | Font Name !! rowspan=2 | Firmware !! rowspan=2 | File Name !! rowspan=2 | MD5 !! colspan=3 | Usage !! colspan=31 | Unicode Subgroups

! original !! rounded !! pop !! <abbr title="Latin">lati</abbr> !! <abbr title="Punctuation">punc</abbr> !! <abbr title="Money">mony</abbr> !! <abbr title="Sup/sub index">suPB</abbr> !! <abbr title="envelope">enve</abbr> !! <abbr title="numbers">numb</abbr> !! <abbr title="arrows">arro</abbr> !! <abbr title="math">math</abbr> !! <abbr title="tech">tech</abbr> !! <abbr title="OCR">OCR</abbr> !! <abbr title="alfanumeric">alfa</abbr> !! <abbr title="frames">fram</abbr> !! <abbr title="blocked">blok</abbr> !! <abbr title="symbols">symb</abbr> !! <abbr title="spaces">spa</abbr> !! <abbr title="diacritic">diac</abbr> !! <abbr title="greek">grek</abbr> !! <abbr title="cirilic">ciri</abbr> !! <abbr title="arab">arab</abbr> !! <abbr title="tibetan">tibe</abbr> !! <abbr title="hangul">hang</abbr> !! <abbr title="hiragana katakana">kana</abbr> !! <abbr title="bopomofo">bopo</abbr> !! <abbr title="ideogram CJK">iCJK</abbr> !! <abbr title="simbols CJK">sCJK</abbr> !! <abbr title="ideogram simbols">ideo</abbr> !! <abbr title="compat CJK">cCJK</abbr> !! <abbr title="variants small">varS</abbr> !! <abbr title="formulary wide">forW</abbr> !! <abbr title="formulary medium">forM</abbr> !! <abbr title="private characters">priv</abbr>

! style="text-align:left;" | DFHeiW5-A

| 1.10-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-DH-R-CGB.TTF || <small>8298536755af9d0c51350dccf84e0f60</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}}

| 1.00-1.54 || rowspan="2" | SCE-PS3-NR-R-EXT.TTF || bgcolor="#ffcccc" | <small>011e1bda9c6b4be8a5919a01d65ccd05</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}

| 1.60-{{latestPS3}} || bgcolor="#ccffcc" | <small>2093744c3265d64e1a211994ed1c9f66</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-NR-B-JPN.TTF || <small>de91673a29236ba6db2b5bff43517a82</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}  || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}

| 1.00-1.94 || rowspan="2" | SCE-PS3-NR-L-JPN.TTF || bgcolor="#ffcccc" | <small>93d3cdf914e6fdf860b2c88b1007e709</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}

| 2.00-{{latestPS3}} || bgcolor="#ccffcc" | <small>e2a36a3567579222ede5fc037e0b4a72</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-NR-R-JPN.TTF || <small>0964fada1726d6c86bfd190b82955d0a</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Bold

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-B-LATIN.TTF || <small>440399fc14b06e06e349ac00f5f90b99</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN BoldItalic

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-BI-LATIN.TTF || <small>aeb6defacc19d4de3badf6829dbc09de</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Italic

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-I-LATIN.TTF || <small>423c81d7808ca94b15609c5393bc8b95</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN LightItalic

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-LI-LATIN.TTF || <small>56615610988819ee3f5ac330a4720229</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Bold

| 2.70-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-B-LATIN2.TTF || <small>4096b273f77b1fdb85edc41de8d5d0cb</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Light

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-L-LATIN.TTF || <small>3bedb71fcfc5945c97e424801ed5655d</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Light

| 2.70-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-L-LATIN2.TTF || <small>331d540c72c733e727d1ad5d17bfffdf</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Regular

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN.TTF || <small>117aecd019bd546158723d04da2597b0</small> || {{Yes}} || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Regular

| 2.70-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN2.TTF || <small>d2928959ca2ec90b5311acc766878da9</small> || {{Yes}} || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Seurat EXT Regular

| 2.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-SR-R-EXT.TTF || <small>cb45f4bd16cfe0eb84b27781d3ec1618</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Seurat JPN Regular

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-SR-R-JPN.TTF || <small>139fd3f044eaf7abec4be15cadfd1b95</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Seurat LATIN Regular

| 1.90-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-SR-R-LATIN.TTF || <small>95b22135152d73a10b228eed7a6fc619</small> || ? || {{Yes}} || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 Seurat LATIN2 Regular

| 3.10-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-SR-R-LATIN2.TTF || <small>2da9b59f0b6f128840059295a7bcb7c3</small> || ? || {{Yes}} || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 YD gd Bold

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-YG-B-KOR.TTF || <small>1903b9af9343b5d66d8ffc69c2fb6cd6</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 YD gd Light

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-YG-L-KOR.TTF || <small>9de713abb39f6b80aaf9bdc7d115878a</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | SCE-PS3 YD gd Medium

| 1.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-YG-R-KOR.TTF || <small>07a1073f311e1e163f7ba6b85f9f4b6b</small> || ? || ?? || ??? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

! style="text-align:left;" | VAGRundschriftDLig

| 2.00-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-VR-R-LATIN.TTF || <small>1f19bc8dd23bf62bfd2e1536cbb5c88a</small> || ? || ?? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

| 3.10-{{latestPS3}} || SCE-PS3-VR-R-LATIN2.TTF || <small>acd93157f7998933774b398740becb46</small> || ? || ?? || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

! format_version ? !! index_entries

| rowspan="6" | {{icon content ps3}} || [[1.90_CEX|1.90]]~[[1.94_CEX|1.94]] || 385816 || 3e74a50419c165f4208b84adcbf2881f || 0x0090 || 0x0129 || initial 297 icons, initial file format (prototype v0.90?)

| [[2.00_CEX|2.00]]~[[2.43_CEX|2.43]] || 386905 || 6b842156c0996e4c706fbdea919a040f || 0x0100 || 0x0129 || same 297 icons, final file format (v1.00?)

| [[2.50_CEX|2.50]]~[[3.42_CEX|3.42]] || 416269 || 2da04c8caaec6012911b10fc3b829b10 || 0x0100 || 0x013E || added uF8A0 to uF8B5 (system icons)

| [[3.50_CEX|3.50]]~[[3.66_CEX|3.66]] || 417620 || 6c03902f0342cc6e688c527b40ce0f7d || 0x0100 || 0x0140 || added uF8B6 (PSPlus icon)

| [[3.70_CEX|3.70]]~[[4.55_CEX|4.55]] || 420192 || 98e8f3545e04ad62da19c2fc63210cfd || 0x0100 || 0x0142 || added uF8B7 and uF8B8 (headset icons)

| [[4.60_CEX|4.60]]~[[4.88_CEX|4.88]] || 424023 || 97daf9e7fff3a834bcf97c0c2240dced || 0x0100 || 0x014C || added uF895 to uF89E (playstation logos)

| colspan="7" {{cellcolors|lightgrey}}

| rowspan="2" | {{icon content psvita}} || 3.30 || ? || ? || ? || ? || ?

| 3.60 || 55110 || 59B8D380817083DEAF6B3C1CAE145507 || 0x0001 || 0x2D00 || 45 icons

===Structure===

The access to imagefont.bin contents is made by reading the first 8 bytes of the file (main header), then all the other areas are readed in a "bottom to top" order:

# - Reads the header (at top of imagefont.bin), it tells where is located the index

# - Loads the index (at bottom of imagefont.bin), it tells where are located the palettes for all icons

# - Decompress and loads the palette for an icon (at middle of imagefont.bin), it tells where is/are located the image/s of the icon (one for static, or several for animated)

# - Decompress and loads the image/s (at top of imagefont.bin)

Note : index and palette header structures of imagefont.bin from FW 1.90~1.94 are slightly different than next versions (prototype?). Following descriptions are applicable for imagefont.bin from FW 2.00+ .

 

|+imagefont.bin header

! Offset !! Length !! Name !! Example !! Remark

|}

 

 

 

 

<table style="width:100%;">[[File:Imagefont.bin 1st glyph.jpg|350px|thumb|left|First glyph, pixel data of "dualshock circle button" (U+F880 in unicode) inside dev_flash/vsh/resource/imagefont.bin]]</table>

 

 

 

0000003A  <span style="background:#ff0000;">00</span> <span style="background:#00ff00;">00</span> <span style="background:#6666ff;">00</span> <span style="background:#000000; color:#ffffff;">01</span>  ....          <- colormap id 0x01

 

 

 

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:small;"

|+Palette header (0x6 length)

! rowspan="2" | Offset !! rowspan="2" | Length !! rowspan="2" | Name !! colspan="5" | Examples !! rowspan="2" | Notes

! <abbr title="static. Is also the first in the index">uF880, button circle</abbr> !! <abbr title="animated, 1 frame. Is also the last in the index">uF6DF, zodiac pisces</abbr> !! <abbr title="animated, 2 frames">uF405, smiley laughing</abbr> !! <abbr title="animated, 3 frames">uF46F, weather raindrops</abbr> !! <abbr title="animated, 4 frames">uF8AB, battery charging</abbr>

| 0x00 || 0x02 || '''colormap_count''' ? || 01 00 || 01 00 || 01 00 || 01 00 || 01 00 || 256 colors in decimal

| 0x02 || 0x01 || '''colormap_bpp''' ? || 04 || 04 || 04 || 04 || 04 || To store colors in RGBA channels, 1 byte each

| 0x03 || 0x01 || '''frames_count''' || 01 || 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 || One for static, several for animated

From here can be deduced some infos, we know every frame is 0xC length so... '''frames_count''' *  0xC = '''frames_table_length''' (the position where starts the colormap). And '''colormap_count''' * '''colormap_bpp''' = '''colormap_length'''

=====Palette frames table=====

The amount of entries in the palette frame table is defined by the value above named '''frames_count''', in static icons this area appears only one time, for animated icons there are several

For every image in the icon (or every frame of the animation) there is an entry here of 0xC length with info specific for that frame (doesnt applyes to other frames of the same animation)... in the practise what we are namig a frame here is the same than a image of the '''Image table''' that is going to be loaded in the next step

 

The '''image_data_offset''' and '''image_data_length''' are used to locate the image (that needs to be zlib decompressed)

 

The '''frame_time''' represents how many time in centiseconds is going to be displayed the image until the image of the next frame replaces it, this value is very related with the '''animation_time''' above, actually the '''animation_time''' should be equal to the sum of all '''frame_time''' of all the frames that composes the animation. It seems is not allowed (tests failed when trying it) to create a "blink" effect by using an '''animation_time''' bigger than the sum of all '''frame_time'''

 

Some static icons in ofw has a timer set for '''animation_time''' when technically should be zero (are composed only by one image so only has one frame and the animation should be looping in that frame). Is unknown why are made this way, by now looks like a nonsense/weirdness/mistake/genius

 

The '''color_transparent''' assigns 1 byte value to an '''color_id''' that is going to be displayed as a fully transparent pixel (technically is a #00000000), note this byte also indicates a color from the colormap (colormap has info for 256 indexed colors)

 

Before and after the '''color_transparent''' there are 2 unknown areas... could be related with other control colors, or not related at all, not much hints about them

 

| 0x00 || 0x04 || ''same'' || {{cellcolors|lightgrey}} <abbr title="circle button doesnt have more frames">'''N/A'''</abbr> || {{cellcolors|lightgrey}} <abbr title="zodiac pisces doesnt have more frames">'''N/A'''</abbr> || {{cellcolors|lightgrey}} <abbr title="smiley laughing doesnt have more frames">'''N/A'''</abbr> || 00 00 EF E1 || 00 00 51 37

 

The colormap is straightforwad, here every entry is indicated by the length of '''colormap_bpp''' (4 bytes for RGBA channels found always in ofw, other values not tested), and the amount of entries is indicated by the value of '''colormap_count''' (256 indexed colors found always used in ofw, other values incoming)

 

The order of how the colors appears in the colormap is very important, every color is given a unique '''color_id''', the first color is ID = 0x00 and last color is ID = 0xFF (for a total of 256 indexed colors)

 

 

The image/s (the real images for every frame) that is/are going to be loaded in the next step uses this '''color_id''' to asign a color for every pixel

 

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After reading all this info from the different areas of the icon palette ('''palette header''', '''palette frames table''', and '''palette colormap''') the file access order "jumps" back to decompress and load the images... so scroll up the wiki page to continue reading at the '''Image table'''

 

 

The most important value from a index entry is the '''unicode_hex_id''' of the icon, this identifyer follows the same format used by the characters/glyphs inside the TTF font files, in other words... are complementary and both imagefont.bin and the TTF files works like components of the same character map (and it seems imagefont.bin has preference, not confirmed though)

 

The '''image_width''' and '''image_height''' tells the dimensions of the icon, no mistery with them, only detail that needs to be mentioned about them is for animated icons composed by several images all the images needs to have the same dimensions, because the dimensions are indicated in the index it means is not posible to create animations with images of different sizes

 

There is an '''unknown''' value at the end, this one should be important (and maybe there is some easter egg hidden in it), is supposed to be a generic descriptor of the icon, or some information needed to know by the firmware about the icon BEFORE accessing any other aditionally data. The point is all the other areas that are going to be accessed in the next steps are compressed in zlib so this unknown value is something that is useful/interesting to know even BEFORE loading the icon data

 

Then is used the value '''palette_length_decompressed''' to reserve an area in memory for zlib decompression purposes (because the palette file that is going to be loaded in next step is zlib compressed), and the palette file is located by using the values '''palette_offset''' and '''palette_length_compressed'''

 

After knowing all this info about an specific icon the access "jumps" back to find the palette of the icon (located at middle of imagefont.bin), so scroll up to continue reading in the section '''Palette table''' above

 

 

 

 

Time is meassured in centiseconds (a hundredth of a second). A centisecond is a unit of time equal to 0.01 seconds. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centisecond and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centisecond

 

Note that all the times used in ofw are multiplyers of 0x14, this is 1/5 of a second, or in other words a "fifth part" of a second (0.20 seconds in decimal), it can be seen also as the faster speed used by official icons (the tornado uF4A6 animated icon uses this frame time), also it can be used to represent the frame rate of the animation meassured in "frames per second" like in a video, to calculate the FPS of an animation is needed to divide 1 by the frame time, this applyes only to animations where all the frames uses the same time (a.k.a. a constant frame rate mantained from start to end at the same FPS)

 

 

 

The format allows for a max speed of 100fps, but my bet is firmware is going to complain about it, so keep in mind that sony used a max of 5fps for "some reason"

 

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*In path: dev_flash/data/font/SONY-CC/ (since [[4.50_CEX|4.50 CEX:]] 7 others fonts for closed captions)

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|  || (4.50-{{latestPS3}}) || n023055ts.ttf || 1078c40b04206b3d42a896994c723452 ||

There are thousands of characters and is pointless to make tables of them, there are also some characters that cant be displayed in a web browser because 99% of the users will not have the fonts installed in PC (like the beauty "drawings" of tibetan alphabet)... but some of this characters are more interesting than others, and are commonly used and included in most fonts, the most interesting groups are the ones that are common for all fonts and used by the system not dependant of the font style (original, rounded, or pop), like the "symbols" and "frame borders"

==General==

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

| colspan="10" {{cellcolors|lightgrey}} <abbr title="doesn't exists inside imagefont.bin, from uF532 up to uF53A">'''N/A'''</abbr>

 

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