A few days ago I was looking for some nice fonts for an led scroller I am making out of 8x8 matrices and after a while of searching I found a guy named cosmicvoid who uploaded this font creator, with some nice samples, on a different forum:
Bitmap font editor for graphic LCD | Crystalfontz LCD Forum (OLD VERSON)
Text/graphic C code for CFAF320240 | Page 2 | Crystalfontz LCD Forum (NEWER VERSION)
This forum concerns itself with LCD displays in paticular, but these fonts can be used anywhere bitmapped fonts are useful.
I link the old version because it has a 8-row sample font that is relatively decent. The newer version has larger fonts which are nicer but will not work for a 8-row display (I am going to try an 8x48 with 6 8x8 displays display first and then 8x80 with 16 8x5 displays). Some of them you could get to work if you had 24 rows, and I bet it would look great. This software is nice because it has a code generation option that can generate a C-array with the bitmapped data in a columnar format which is perfect for using with a scrolling algorithm. The newer version can write the code in a row-wise format too, if you want.
Anyone know of anything better than this? The newer version is pretty darn nice for free and the sample fonts are good stuff. It's the best free software I could find.