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 fam­ilys around.

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 select­ing your choice from the drop-down box below and click­ing ‘add to cart’. Your cart will be auto­mat­ic­ally updated to the right, where you can choose to go to the check­out. You will then be asked to fill in your details and pay through PayPal. After doing so you can expect an email receipt of your trans­ac­tion, fol­lowed shortly by another email con­tain­ing the down­load link.