pixel – Variable Fonts (original) (raw)

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SKWAR VAR

A monospaced, all-caps, pixel typeface.

Tags: sans, all caps, monoline, monospaced, pixel, polygonal, rectangular, straight-sided
Design: Heydon
Publisher: Heydon
Characters: Latin (limited)
Released: 2021-06-24
Licensing: Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: heydon.works/skwar

Wavefont

Linefont

Gridlite

​A modular pixel typeface with adjustable foreground and background patterning.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, monospaced, multi-line, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, ornamented, pixel, spurless, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design: David Březina
Publisher: Rosetta Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
Released: 2020-07-02
Updated: 2021-04-08
Licensing: Trial, Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: rosettatype.com

Homecomputer

Variable interpretations of monospaced pixel fonts for the Commodore 64 and Amiga home computer systems from the 1980s, with adjustable effects to simulate artifacts of old CRT displays.

Tags: decorative/display, serif, sans, modular, monospaced, multi-line, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, ornamented, pixel, rounded, soft corners, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design: Jens Kutílek
Publisher: Jens Kutílek
Characters: Latin
Released: 2019-12-19
Licensing: Open source
Info/fonts: github.com

Dusseldot

Tags: decorative/display, sans, geometric, all caps, Art Deco, Johnstonian, modular, monoline, multiplexed, ornamented, pixel, unusual variation
Design: Ilya Bazhanov, Maks Barbulović
Publisher: tomorrow.type.today
Characters: Latin, Cyrillic
Released: 2019-11-07
Licensing: Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: tomorrow.type.today

TINY

A mostly-monospaced dot-matrix typeface based on the smallest type size of 5 dots on the HandJet EBS-250 hand-held printer. Includes several sets of stylistic alternate glyphs, with different dot configurations and widths.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, quantized, spurless, straight-sided
Design: Jack Halten Fahnestock
Publisher: Velvetyne Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, dingbats/emoji
Released: 2019-04-04
Licensing: Open source
Info/fonts: velvetyne.fr

Handjet

​Handjet started as an exercise with design students to make a typeface for handset printers and their 32-pixel vertical matrix, but grew into a large multi-script design.

In 2019, Google sponsored and extension and open-source release of the typeface. Consultants for the project include Maria Doreuli (Cyrillic), Irene Vlachou (Greek), Borna Izadpanah (Arabic), Khajag Apelian (Armenian), and Meir Sadan (Hebrew).

The font is provided with a warning that “variable fonts are relatively new and Handjet sometimes challenges the limits. You might get unpredictable, yet beautiful and somewhat amusing, rendering errors in Adobe software. It works well in browsers as far as we know.”

Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, polygonal, straight-sided, unusual variation
Design: David Březina
Publisher: Rosetta Type Foundry
Characters: Latin, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, dingbats/emoji
Released: 2018-12-04
Updated: 2021-05-12
Licensing: Open source
Info/fonts: rosettatype.com

BPdots

Wind VF

​Wind offers an unusual axis to vary its sweeping design elements smoothly around a full 360° circle of rotation. It can also be layered for special color/overlay effects. The typeface was adapted from Hansje van Halem’s alphabet design to a variable font form by Peter Biľak and Thom Janssen.

Tags: decorative/display, sans, geometric, all caps, animation, modular, multiplexed, ornamented, pixel, rotation, sharp, unusual variation, woman-designed
Design: Hansje van Halem
Publisher: Typotheque
Characters: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
Released: 2017-12-08
Updated: 2018-11-14
Licensing: Paid/commercial
Info/fonts: typotheque.com

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