Since I do a lot of pixel-art, I often find myself doing signage. Particularly with smaller pieces, it’s hard to make the letter legible. Usually it requires hand-pixelling the letters, which can be tedious. The Nano-Bit font was developed to be distinguishable and for lettering which will be read quickly and briefly. It’s not intended for large blocks of text.

This font is really best used in all-caps, though it features lower-case as well. This is a condensed, short font, but it is pixel wider that what you need, so it cannot be considered the most compact of fonts; it still may give you fits in super-tight spaces, but hand-kerning can help with that. This is a full font set, including ALL special characters. The zip file includes the font, a readme file, plus a copy of the graphic above so you can see the full set. When using a graphics program, this font works best at 6pts.

This font is free use for personal and non-commercial projects. If someone is interested in licensing for commercial work, there is more information in the readme.

Download the font HERE.

This font is named after the superhero character in my pixel-art/smiley comic, Bitmap World. When we first started the comic, 2 1/2 years ago, I created 4 unique pixels fonts for use in the strip. Rasterman is not one of the those 4, but a new creation based on one of the older works. It is a condensed, shortened version of the Bitmap World font (which is used for the main lettering of the strip). I don’t have any plans of releasing the official Bitmap World font, so this is as close as you can get!

This happens to be one of my favorite fonts. It’s much different than most other pixel fonts, yet is still very stylized and readable.

This is a full font set, including ALL special characters. The zip file includes the font, a readme file, plus a copy of the graphic above so you can see the full set. When using a graphics program, this font works best at 6pts.

Download the font HERE.

This font was created based on hand-pixelled lettering done by an artist friend of mine. Devil-Man-Josh over at deviantArt had done an avatar using the lettering. I liked it so much, I asked him if I could convert it to a font. Since he only had a few letters, he went and created the whole set. Problem was that his uppercase letters were a bit too big, so I ended up creating all the capital letters as well as the special characters. So, this font is a collaborative effort.

This is a full font set, including ALL special characters (only a few are shown in the example). The zip file includes the font, a readme file, plus a copy of the graphic above so you can see the full set. When using a graphics program, this font works best at 6pts.

You can visit Josh at his page on deviantART [link].

Download the font HERE.

As with many of our creations, my foray into pixel fonts was out of necessity. I was working on our upcoming webcomic and wanted a pixelated font for the lettering. Thing was, I was not concerned about size. I wanted something on the larger side, but still with some style to it. At the time, most of the fonts were just too small to be read on a large scale. I was lucky enough to come upon an online bitmap font maker [link], which allowed me to create my own. The site is awesome for the casual user. You can create a full font set, including all standard typographical character. However, since it is an online utility, the fonts can be a bit off and need manual kerning. For a free utility, though, it’s a small complaint.

Eventually, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase commercial software to make my fonts. Since then, I have remastered my original fonts, plus made several more. My true love is pixel fonts, which is what I have exclusively made thus far. I may branch out into regular fonts later, but for now am happy to stick to this.

I will be featuring the fonts in separate entries. To view them all, click on the FONT category button in the left-hand navigation bar.