306521
Published: 15th December, 2012
Last edited: 26th January, 2013
Created: 15th December, 2012
A combination of blackletter and building blocks. Inspired by little kid's blocks. Descenders on A,H,K,N,R are meant to be there, I felt like adding them. :) This is also my first attempt at blackletter.
180980
Published: 6th November, 2010
Last edited: 25th October, 2014
Created: 27th September, 2010
The next generation of pixel8. In this version the lower-case letterforms have a more consistent x-height, and—oh yeah—there's a full upper-case.
January 2011 revision:
• renamed "pixel8b" to "pixel8 rev B"
• tweaked the legibility of the percent sign and the lower-case x
• redrew curly braces to differentiate from parenthesis
•added ff ligature on accent grave key
•fixed some kerning issued with comma and parenthesesThis is a clone of pixel8
80690
Published: 22nd September, 2010
Last edited: 25th October, 2014
Created: 22nd September, 2010
Did the world need another low-res typeface? I don't know but I did it anyway. Originally, I only needed a few letters and I planned this to be just a pixel-style design. I only intended to use it as a display font at larger sizes. But as I worked on it, I got inspired to make it hold up at smaller sizes, too.
I wanted to be very minimal but still infuse it with a little more life than a lot of (low-res) sans serifs. Corners were rounded where possible, and I tried to invoke some old style characteristics like the looped g and bent lower-case t. I also like the variation in the x-height; some are 5px reaching above the waistline, but most are only 4px. I could have made them all 5, but this creates some more interesting word shapes.
It's lower-case only at this point; upper-case is on its way. Hopefully non-lining numerals and more punctuation, too.
The name is a play on words that relates to the 8-pixel cap-height.