Pixelify Sans

Try Pixelify Sans

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pixelify Sans Regular
• Medium 500Pixelify Sans Medium
• SemiBold 600Pixelify Sans SemiBold
• Bold 700Pixelify Sans Bold

Pixelify Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Pixelify Sans

Pixelify Sans is a display typeface drawn on a coarse grid of square pixels, the look of 1980s computer graphics and video games that its official description points to. Curves are replaced by stair-steps, the diagonals of K, X and the percent sign break into separate blocks, and round letters such as O and a become boxes with clipped corners. The lowercase is wide, with short ascenders. One variable file carries a weight axis from 400 to 700 with four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold; in the specimen the blocks grow thicker from one to the next while the letter shapes stay the same. There is no italic. The font contains 576 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets plus a Cyrillic set. Stefie Justprince is named as designer, and the font is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pixelify Sans works

Game titles and menus

Blocky letters match pixel-art graphics, and Bold 700 separates a selected menu item from the rest.

Retro-themed posters and overlays

The stair-stepped outlines recall early home computers on event artwork and stream graphics.

Scores and counters

Numerals built on the same grid as the letters suit timers, levels and score displays.

Headings on developer sites

A short heading in Pixelify Sans adds an 8-bit accent above text set in a plain family.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic (incomplete: О, П missing), Greek (incomplete: Δ, Ω missing). These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Pixelify Sans

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 Pixelify Sans 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: "Pixelify Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PixelifySans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Pixelify Sans", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Pixelify Sans 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=Pixelify+Sans:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One variable file

All four weights come from a single file with a 400 to 700 axis. The static files are not in this package.

No italic

Pixelify Sans is upright only.

Made for short text

Every letter is reduced to a few blocks, so the face is a display design, not a text family.

FAQs

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