TTF to Byte Array to display on TFT LCD Screen

[mcp2319]

I dont know alot about fonts so please bear with my likely incorrect terminology....

I'm looking for a way to convert a TTF font into a byte array that can then be put into a frame buffer and sent to an TFT LCD screen for display (I'm running Micropython on a raspberry pi pico with an ILI9488 based 3.5" TFT LCS screen). So to say this another way, I need a tool that will open the TTF font file and scan every "position/pixel" in the font. Every position that has a background color would output a "0" bit to the byte array. Every position that has part of the character itself would output a "1" bit to the byte array.

Is there such a tool within the font tools library? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

(edited to fix some typos)

[anthrotype]

it looks like you want to rasterize a font (convert outlines into pixels), if you want to do that from Python I suggest you look into freetype-py (python bindings to the FreeType library) https://github.com/rougier/freetype-py