Pixel fonts?

remy
13.Jul.2007 9.56am

In the quest to find a decent typeface for this website I’m working on (for a photographer — it’s very clean, white, gray type, lots of imagery) I’m thinking of bagging the helvetica route and going with a nice pixel font.

Just to throw it out there, how do people feel about pixel fonts on screen? Do people have any favorites?

I’m not talking anything fancy or gnarly - just simple - something rather than helvetica or myriad. This is the first website I’ve designed myself and I’m literally melting down about the type usage.

Thanks.

Stephen Coles
13.Jul.2007 10.35am

I think the lifespan of your design will be longer if you go with a raster font.

Hrant, insert your rebuttal here ↓

TDF
13.Jul.2007 10.42am

I like Unibody, free from underware:

www.underware.nl

Sharon Van Lieu
13.Jul.2007 11.07am

I used unibody on my site, a lot on my contents page. I know Speak Up uses unibody and cellular. I was one of the 8 million people who wrote and asked them. :-)

Sharon

Typo_DE
17.Jul.2007 12.48am

Why don’t you try Atoxina? It’s totally modern and work perfectly both in small and big sizes.

Gregory Cadars
17.Jul.2007 6.25am

My humble list of really well-made pixel fonts:

- MacOS: Geneva 9px, Monaco 10px, Lucida Grande (aliased) 9/12px
- Fountain’s Sevenet and Lipod
- Eworlder Headline
- Nu font pack (based on OS9 beloved Espy system font)
- Eboy’s SubMono and SubVario
- Everything by Miguel Hernandez
- Everything by Susan Kare

and of course all the MS obvious ones by Matthew Carter…

chopshop
19.Jul.2007 4.24am