README.md

Nextion Font Suite

A collection of tools to work with Nextion Fonts.

Branch	Status
master

Roadmap

Prioritized tasks

Work on these items is taking place in the v5support branch

• Reverse engineering of the new Nextion font format supporting anti-aliasing and variable width fonts (TJC USART HMI version 0.55)
• Support for anti-aliased and variable width fonts for (TJC USART HMI version 0.55)

Less prioritized tasks

• Reverse engineering of the Nextion font format version 3 for Nextion Editor V0.53
• Font Viewer
• Font Editor
• Font generator
• Support for most code pages supported by Nextion Editor
  • ASCII
  • ISO-8859-1
  • Others

Sample screenshot of the "Font Editor"-tool previewing the $ character from the Arial_40_ascii.zi file.

Sample screenshot of the "Font Preview"-tool previewing the Arial_40_ascii.zi file.

Nextion .ZI Font Format Specification

ZI version 3 specification

A mostly complete reverse engineered specification of the Nextion font format (ZI version 3), can be found here:

ZI version 3 specification

ZI version 5 specification

I recently started reverse engineering the new ZI file format version 5 used in TJCs USART HMI editor version 0.55. ZI version 5 supports variable width fonts and antialiasing. This specification is very much a work in progress. Feel free to contribute.

ZI version 5 specification (❗ Work in progress ❗)

TJCs USART HMI English Patch

If you want to try the new font features and have a TJC panel, you can use this patch to run USART HMI in english.

TJCs USART HMI English Patch