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Bitmap font generator http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ (http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/) can creates fonts in black and white only. I'm looking for more advanced tool. Share you experience on it please. Thanks in advance. (Output file format is .fnt)

you could set the color to anything you'd like before drawing the text though.
or you could change the colors in your bitmap to your fancy

Choosing color for font needs artist skills. I'm looking for automatic way, not just editing in Photoshop

I don't think nikki is talking about coloring the font in Photoshop. If you've got a white font, you can change its color when blitting to the screen by indicating what the R, G and B color values should be.

yeah changing the color programatically is what I would do/have done.
for colored fonts with colored borders/shadows I'd draw the font twice;
-first in the background color
-and over that, slightly offsetted, in the foregroundcolor

but I also pointed to the (crazy) possibility of changing the colors in your actual bitmap.
Imagine you want all your "A"'s yellow and your "B"'s with a red to green gradient and etc then that route would make sense, I hope for readability's sake that it doesn't though ;)

I'm not sure what .fnt file format is for but you can just create a bitmap font in Photoshop and treat it just like a spritesheet.

http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson30/index.php
This guy tells you how to program bitmap fonts. See if you can analyze that and see how to create content on which his algorithm will work perfectly.