@behreandtjeremy
ah, you’re right. i was thinking only in the simplest terms: monospaced fonts only and bitmaps not extracted directly from font but rather manually rendered in predefined table (probably ascii). other metrics would be just a part of each entry. then you could easily turn that bitmap into an array in processing.
ah, processing, if we could script like that in aseprite, we would be in a realm of magic 
@Ethan_Buttazzi
yup, but editable text layers would be amazing, don’t you think?