Zavier Woodward

The typeface PIXEL pattern is designed from 2021 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by Manuel Viergutz.

The display typeface is inspired in the past and present.

8 font-styles (Square, Circle, Square Flicker, Circle Cloud, Square Bold, Square Fat, Star, Star Spike) with 830 glyphs (Adobe Latin 3) incl. 100+ decorative extras like icons, arrows, German Capital Sharp S, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes, catchwords, decorative ligatures (type the word #LOVE for or #SMILE for as OpenType-Feature dlig) and stylistic alternates (8 stylistic sets).

For use in logos, magazines, posters, advertisement plus as webfont for decorative headlines. The font works best for display size.

Have fun with this font & use the DEMO-FONT (with reduced glyph-set) FOR FREE!

■ Font Name: PIXEL pattern
■ Font Styles: 8 font-styles (Square, Circle, Square Flicker, Circle Cloud, Square Bold, Square Fat, Star, Star Spike) + DEMO (with reduced glyph-set)
■ Font Cate­gory: Dis­play for head­line size
■ Font For­mat: .ttf (for Print) + .woff (for Web)
■ Glyph Set: 830 glyphs (Latin 3 incl. decorative extras like icons)
■ Lan­guage Sup­port: 93 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, Northern Sami, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, NorwegianNynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Zulu
■ Design Date: 2021
■ Type Desi­gner: Manuel Viergutz

Based on the lettering used on Alan Turing’s famous code-breaking machine at Bletchley Park, the “Bombe”, and the subsequent British answer to the German Enigma machine, the Typex.

Research done at Bletchley Park on their restored and antique machines provided the inspiration. The unusual shapes for the capitals have all been retained - the square O, the monospaced characters and other eccentricities that make it unique. This reference material was then extended to the numerals (which did not exist in the original) and a full international character complement.

The initial design of the bombe was produced in 1939 at the UK Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing, with an important refinement devised in 1940 by Gordon Welchman. It was based on a device that had been designed in 1938 in Poland at the Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) by cryptologist Marian Rejewski, and known as the “cryptologic bomb” (Polish: bomba kryptologiczna).

The Bombe was used to break the German Enigma code on a daily basis, and was a vital part of the Allied war effort. The British “Typex” (alternatively, Type X or TypeX) machines were an adaptation of the commercial German Enigma with a number of enhancements that greatly increased its security. It was used from 1937 until the mid-1950s, when other more modern military encryption systems came into use.

Microdot is a pixel typeface that uses 5 by 7 grid. Fonts supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew, all with thoroughly designed diacritics. Microdot makes use of advanced OpenType features, just as any other modern text typeface.

Medieval Pixel VP is a highly stylized family of three fonts that combine familiar pixelfont forms with unique sharp details - evocative of a fantasy and historical aesthetic, retro video games, and horror movies. 

All styles include an extensive character set and numerous advanced OpenType features. Over 800 glyphs in each font ensure full support for over 200 languages.

• 1x OpenType font.
• 1x WOFF font.
• This font contains 176 glyphs.
• Optimised for use as a pixel font at 34px and multiples of 34px.

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SB Incline is an ultracompressed pixelfont with alternatives for adjusting the midpoint.

• 8x SVG Color fonts.
• 6x OpenType fonts designed for layering.
• 6x WOFF fonts designed for layering.
• Each font contains 73 glyphs.

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SB Duplex Pixel is an experiment in legibility at low resolutions. It is a lower case only, pixel style typeface with an x-height of only two pixels. Although it is very difficult to make text this size easy to read, it attempts to retain some legibility by using hand anti-aliasing.

SB Duplex Dot follows the same formula but uses circles instead of pixels. It isn’t very legible, but works nicely as a more abstract graphic element to complement the pixel version.

Both fonts have SVG Color versions, covering transparent, opaque and reversed out use. There are also OpenType versions designed to be layered and recoloured.