Design Graveyard: Pixeltype Edition
June 20th, 2008
Chris Palmieri
This morning I was flipping through some of our old work over coffee and stumbled across a display typeface we designed for a client website in 2004. The website never saw the light of day, and the typeface, a 41-pixel tall pixel font, never made it out of Photoshop.
Just past the peak of pixel font popularity, there were a few type companies experimenting with controlled sub-pixel anti-aliasing, but they were mainly focused on text fonts for mobile phones, and had little use for our display face. Without the know-how to digitize it ourselves, the design sat shelved in an archive folder.
Today we take it off the shelf, give it a name, and offer it for free download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan License.
As a layerd PSD, it’s a bit of a pain to use, but perfectly suitable for page titles and headlines of a few words. The design draws loose inspiration from all over the place from sports jerseys to heavy metal t-shirts, so some letter pairs work better than others. We’ve left in all the outtakes and unlikely ligatures for you to play with.
If you make something with it, please leave us a comment, or send an email and we’ll post it here!
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