If you want a pure MicroPython solution, with the opportunity to easily design your own fonts, I have a small MicroPython script that does this:
Upper, lower and special chars are implemented.
All fonts are encoded as binary vals in a character map or look up table, but it is easy to create them, with a spreadsheet I put together, simply click the ‘pixels’ and it spits out the binary data you can use in your code.
I have a video rundown of code usage and how to use the spreadsheet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMlGyAYNdF8
All code and a short manual can be found here: https://github.com/leswright1977/picofont
Hope this helps!
Les