Bitcount Single

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Weights and styles

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

Bitcount Single 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 Single

Bitcount Single is a display face made of dots: each letter is plotted on a coarse grid, the way characters appear on a matrix display or a needle printer. Weight changes the size of the dots rather than the skeleton. At Thin 100 they are pinpricks with air between them, around Regular they touch, and at Black 900 they merge into solid, lumpy strokes. The variable file has five axes: Weight from 100 to 900, Slant from 0 to −8, Cursive, and two custom ones named Element Expansion and Element Shape, each running from 0 to 100. Nine named weights, upright and slanted, give 18 styles. The font holds 1,701 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Petr van Blokland is credited as designer and TYPETR as manufacturer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bitcount Single works

Titles for games and electronic music

Dotted letters recall arcade score boards and LED tickers, and the Black weight fills them in for a heavy logo line.

Departure-board and ticker graphics

Each character sits on the same dot grid, so rows of text look like a matrix display in motion graphics.

Animated type

Because weight scales the dots, animating the axis from 100 to 900 makes a word swell from points into solid letters.

Posters at large sizes

At poster scale the separate dots of the Thin and Light weights become a pattern in their own right.

Receipts, tickets and labels as a motif

Regular 400 gives the dotted print of a till roll for packaging or editorial illustration.

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 Single

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 Single 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 Single";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BitcountSingle-VariableFont_CRSV%2CELSH%2CELXP%2Cslnt%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bitcount Single 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+Single:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Light weights vanish when small

Thin and ExtraLight are rows of tiny separate dots in the specimen; they need large sizes or high-resolution output to stay visible.

Custom axes are set by tag

Element Expansion and Element Shape are addressed as ELXP and ELSH through font-variation-settings; both default to 0.

Slant comes from an axis

There is no separate italic file. The slanted styles use the Slant axis, which goes to −8.

FAQs

Collections with Bitcount Single

• Pixel and arcade fonts

  Bitmap-style and dot-matrix display fonts after 1980s game screens, terminals and LED panels, for retro games and tech graphics.

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