Pixl is a new pixel typeface. Best displayed at 6pt (or multiples thereof for larger sizes) it is only 5 pixels high. With an x-height of 4 pixels, an ascender of only 1 pixel, and a descender of also 1 pixel it is one of the smallest pixel type family’s around. And it’s available (and cheap) in our shop right now!
You may notice similarities to Susan Kare’s ‘Five Dots’ or Jason Kottke’s ‘Silkscreen’ because — truth be told — there’s only a limited number of ways that you can arrange pixels in a 5 pixel high box, but Pixl differs in that it has both uppercase and lowercase, full symbol support (as much as can be arranged to be recognisable at this small size), and many variants.
First up we have ‘Pixl’ itself. Available in Regular/Medium, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic it is as versatile as a pixel font has ever been. Next is ‘Pixl Mono’, in which various characters have been lengthened (or shortened) so that they all fit in a 5x5 square, perfect for displaying code at a small size. Finally we have ‘Pixl Serif’: a variation of Pixl — but only available in Regular and Bold — it has grown slightly in width (and style) thanks to the addition of serifs.
As another advantage of Pixl, it is also licensed to be fully embeddable. This means you can finally take advantage of CSS 3’s @font-face embedding. To learn just how to do that, visit here.
You can purchase any (or all) of these fonts in TrueType format, and at a much lower fee than any Type Foundry would charge you (if indeed you could find such a diverse and complete family) by heading to our shop and making your selection. If you have any issues with the shopping process then please contact us using any of the means noted to the right of this post and we’ll be happy to help.