Adrian Frutiger’s distinguished and successful 1966 design for the European Computer Manufacturers’ Association improving readability of letters for both machines and humans. OCR-B is replacing OCR-A.

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Galexica is a geometic, modernistic, sans-serif tyepface.

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Gyparody Regular was originally created in 2000.

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A futuristic styled font that takes influences from 1970s music and film.

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Lineavec is a sharp, wide, light, futuristic font.

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Good for small screen resolutions and nice output at larger sizes.

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Designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev. Based on OCR-A typeface (1968) of American Type Founders. A simple sans serif typeface designed to meet the requirements of the US Bureau of Standards for optical character recognition.

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Base_PXL7 is designed as a pseudo-pixelfont.

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Train OnTime and Train Delayed are based on the text used to display the destination info on the front and rear of trains.

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Flat10 Stencil is a pixel font for flash and other graphic images for display.

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The Delivery Matrix typestyle is inspired by the high bleed stamp printing on some shipped packages I've received over the years. An extended techno dot matrix style, good for so many uses at a wide variety of sizes, even with the tight “e” and “s” characters. Do you send out packages to friends...? Do you make techno style art/flyers...? Here is a typestyle for you.

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Alpha Fox is another one of my experimental Alpha-series designs. I closely looked at a gas station receipt and was surprised to see those distorted pixelated letters that jumped up and down as they liked. I immediately thought I'll give it a try.

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‘LCD’ stands for ‘Liquid Crystal Display’, the information display technology used in products such as digital watches and clocks. An appropriate choice when a futuristic, high-tech look is desired. Designed by the talented British designer Alan Birch.

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Affront is Carsten Raffel's first font for fontkingz. It is a very extended computer-generated font-family with three members: regular, light and a stylish doublette-version.

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In 1968, American Type Founders produced OCR-A, one of the first optical character recognition typefaces to meet the criteria set by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. The design is simple so that it can be read by a machine, but it is slightly more difficult for the human eye to read.

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The Octa fonts are primarily intended for heading, display and decorative use. A close relative to Alert, Octa is angular by its structure but soft-outlined typeface with modern industrial strength expression. The Octa group fonts consist of five families - Octa, Octa Stencil, Octa Mono, Octa UniMono and Octa Tile:

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Beat is a quirky OCR-inspired face with a rounded, retro-electronic feel.

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Basis is a bitmap font family which is happy being used at both small and large sizes.

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Letter Gothic was designed by Roger Roberson for IBM sometime between 1956 and 1962.

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A great headline face very bold and graphic.

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Vagebond is a monoline family in three widths, Condensed (C), Normal (N), and Extended (XT). With Vagebond I was inspired by a very old television I once saw on a junkyard. I wanted to create a typeface with round edges that would fit within the 4 x 3 proportion of the screen. It had to be monoline, because that gives it a very simplistic and minimalistic look.

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OCR-A AI Text is the version for normal use when the text will be read by humans.

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Arkeo BT is designer Brian Sooy’s first typeface family published by Bitstream. Given very few design elements to work with, Brian has designed a bitmap font that is unique and very readable. There are three widths, Condensed, Regular and Extended. In our opinion, pixels never looked so good. Arkeo performs equally well on screen and as on paper. The OpenType versions include an extended character set featuring oldstyle figures, fractions and additional f-ligatures.

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This font package is designed to create PC-type screens, using all the characters in the IBM extended character set (except for three grey blocks), and is monospaced (all characters have the same width).

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Named after the collaboration of Frank Sheeran, Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell that produced the FIGlet application, FIG is set of three postscript typefaces in the spirit of early email and ASCII art explorations. Written in 1991 using the programming language C, the FIGlet application allows users to create fonts with basic ASCII characters. The FIG types capture the simplicity of the FIGlets with a family that includes a sans, a serif and a script.

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Remember the old arcade games such as PacMan?

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Yagi Link Double is a very famous 1970/80s typeface published within some old Letraset catalogues.

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This digitally remastered high density lettering has been bitmapped out for you by Comicraft’s Eric Eng Wong. Those of you harddriving through cyberspace on the information superhighway had better zap your prams and reboot your hard disk before you're dragged into your system folder while OVERBYTE makes a major withdrawal from your atm. Do not be fooled by the name, there’s nothing goofy about this typeface.

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Stan Davis drew this face for VGC in 1967, following the structure of the MICR figures to suggest a ‘computerized’ effect.

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A second VGC face, this one by S. Biggenden, borrowing from the structure of MICR figures to lend computer associations to the page.

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Bubblewrap is based on a 10 x 14 dot matrix grid and is perfect for projects where a little care and attention is the order of the day.

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Monitor is an early experiment in TV-wall pixeldom, and has the unique property of becoming easier to read the further away one gets.

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SCR fonts are screen optimized (also called ‘pixel fonts’). Unlike standard fonts (and like the few well-hinted fonts like Verdana or Arial), they give a crisp look on screen at very small sizes, thus increasing legibility. The perfect applications for those fonts are web pages and software user interfaces (computer, cellular phones, console games and any other system that uses a screen interface).

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Neuropol is a futuristic font family inspired by science fiction video games and flatbed plotters. Designed by Ray Larabie in 1997, the original Neuropol was an instant hit with younger graphic designers, neatly filling the void between Microgramma, the universal geometric sans serif of the late 20th century, and the fast approaching 21st century.

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Propane is a standard family of four fonts containing Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic styles. While the geometry of the upright styles gives an industrial strength, the Italics mixture of upright and slanted line adds an unlikely beauty to the family.

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This decorative, headline or logotype geometric font consists entirely of lowercase letters. The glyphs of uppercase are rounder than their lowercase counterparts, allowing playful interaction within words, contrasting round and square shapes.

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SB Liquid is a rendition of a typeface used on Liquid Crystal Display panels and was originally designed for a mobile phone hire company. I opted to produce two versions of the typeface, open and solid, to give the designer more choice in how the font is used.

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Codiga is perfect for titles and badges that need to show a futurist and space sensation. Its angles formed by straight lines and its san serif monolineal design allows its solid and rigid shapes stress its industrial and technology Look.

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Good Times was originally created in 1998 and has been overhauled a decade later.

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Carbon from Behaviour was released by T.26 in March of 2003. Carbon is based on bitmap style screen font of Frankin’s Language master LM2200. This revised version was done in early 2006 for our in-house project. Carbon C6 offers an improvement in outline drawing by giving some more details. An alternative to modern typewriter style typeface.

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Telidon is an font reminiscent of dot matrix printer fonts of the 1970s and 1980s and are still in use today on retail receipts. Telidon is useful for simulating LED pixel board graphics. If you want a rougher, more authentic dot matrix printer look, Telidon has a sister family called Telidon Ink which has a distressed, inky appearance. The extended styles have doubled pixels, just like the dot matrix fonts of yesteryear.

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The signs of the concerthalls where Elvis played night after night inspired to create this funky lightbulbfont.

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This font is based on a matrix of dots in the shape of little hearts.

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Xenu is a high-tech, contemporary typeface family of eight styles which includes Regular, SemiBold, Bold and Black weights with italics for each.

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Rexlia is seven weights of ruggedness. Tough. Smart. Armed to the teeth with robot-precise curves.

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Another in the series of competent IBM serifed typewriter faces, this one from Howard Kettler in Lexington in 1956.

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First used as ornamentation by calligraphers and stone cutters and later included within moveable types to avoid crashing letter pairs, ligatures have always elicited a fascination amongst typographers and designers alike. As if performing a typographical magic trick, they seamlessly combine surprise, utility and recognizability into a single character.

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Inspired by the idea of found paper objects, this font centers around a strict grid.

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A chunky font for headline use.

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After readings and reflections about the process-poem,“anti-literary” movement, contemporary of concretism, a font of simple form that could provide directions and sense of reading demanded its creation. So we have done the labor of the processual, modulate by consequence and not by option, born with autonomy and authority.

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Mooshine is a crisp clear pixelfont, ideal for smallprint, banners, website buttons, navbars, mobile devices and the like.
Mooshine contains a wide range of accented characters and is optimized for use at (any multiple of) size 10pt without anti-aliasing.

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Game over. Insert coin to continue. 1 coin, 1 play. Credits 00.

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The Europa Twin Family is a geometric typestyle inspired by listening to a Thomas Dolby’s song, “Europa and the Pirate Twins”. It is a psuedo-sexy techno typeface to embody an ultra hypnotic 80’s electro pop song. It has suave personality, and is clearly readable at an array of sizes, perfect for anything from headlines to club flyer subtext!

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The best of both worlds : good for small screen resolutions and nice output at larger sizes.

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