Bitcount Ink

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Bitcount Ink Thin
• ExtraLight 200Bitcount Ink ExtraLight
• Light 300Bitcount Ink Light
• Regular 400Bitcount Ink Regular
• Medium 500Bitcount Ink Medium
• SemiBold 600Bitcount Ink SemiBold
• Bold 700Bitcount Ink Bold
• ExtraBold 800Bitcount Ink ExtraBold
• Black 900Bitcount Ink Black

Bitcount Ink is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range. There is no separate italic file: slanted styles are set with the Slant axis.

About Bitcount Ink

Bitcount Ink is a display typeface built from round dots arranged on a pixel grid. In the specimen, Thin reduces the dots to fine points with space between them, while towards Black they grow, touch and merge into solid shapes; letters such as i, l and I carry slab-like feet, and characters appear to share a common width. The family is a single variable font with eleven axes. Weight runs from 100 to 900 and slant from -8 to 0; the others are named Element Expansion, Element Shape and Cursive, plus size, horizontal position and vertical position for each of two paints. Nine named weights, upright and slanted, give 18 styles. The font holds 984 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Petr van Blokland is the designer, TYPETR the manufacturer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bitcount Ink works

Titles with an LED or printer look

Letters made of separate dots recall matrix displays and dot printers without any image editing.

Animated type

Eleven axes, among them Element Shape and Element Expansion, give motion designers many parameters to animate.

Game and tech interfaces at large sizes

The weight axis changes dot size, so the same text can go from a faint grid to solid pixel letters.

Posters and covers

At poster scale the individual dots become a visible pattern inside each letter.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bitcount Ink

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bitcount Ink on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bitcount Ink";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BitcountInk-VariableFont_CRSV%2CELSH%2CELXP%2CSZP1%2CSZP2%2CXPN1%2CXPN2%2CYPN1%2CYPN2%2Cslnt%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bitcount Ink", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bitcount Ink with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bitcount+Ink:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Eleven axes

Besides weight and slant, the font has Element Expansion, Element Shape, Cursive and six axes for the size and position of two paints. Software without controls for custom axes exposes only part of this.

Slant instead of italic files

The slanted styles come from the slant axis, which runs from -8 to 0. There is no separate italic file.

A display design

The dotted structure breaks down at small sizes, as the Thin sample in the specimen shows.

FAQs

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