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Pixel Fonts, Screen Fonts, Bitmap Fonts, Small Fonts
The Pixel Fonts section contains annotated links to pixel fonts, a.k.a. small screen fonts or bitmap fonts. Also included is a listing of pixel fonts and LED fonts especially for Adobe Flash, Switch, and similar motion graphics software programs. You'll find free fonts and commercial or shareware fonts, and all or nearly all are available for immediate download.
Some of the listings here appear elsewhere at this site but are compiled here by category to help make your search easier. These pixel fonts listings include shareware, commercial, and freeware pixel fonts.
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Screen, Small, Bitmap, Pixel Fonts
Some of these fonts are listed elsewhere within WebsiteTips.com's Fonts section but they're compiled here for convenience. They include freeware, shareware, commercial font foundries, etc. Some of these sites have fonts that are specified to work well with Flash or Swish. See also the Pixel and LED Fonts for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash), Swish section below.
- 04 Bitmap Font (www.o4.jp.org)
by Yuji Oshimoto. Several small, high quality versions of his font called 'bitmap font' available here. Has image charts showing fonts at 8 point, 12 point, 16 point. So well done! For Macs and PCs. - Atomic Media Fonts (via MyFonts.com)
Fonts specially designed for use with Flash, Web sites, and wireless applications and come complete with outlines for print applications. They now also offer icons that are superbly done, too. Especially great fonts for very small sizes for the Web that you see in navigation. They work well at various sizes, though, too. Available as Mac and PC postscript. Download free demo versions, or purchase sets via Makambo for immediate download. Bitpak (5 font sets), Cellular, Remote, Quanta, Monocule, Genetica, Megalon (Japanese 1-bit Katakana), Bylinear, Arachnid, Wired, and icons are now available. [Matthew Bardram, Atomic Media Fonts] - Altered Ego Fonts
Beautiful fonts here include text fonts, display fonts, condensed and narrow-width fonts, and great dingbat fonts for creating Web site icons, such as Eclectic Web icons and Eclectic Pixel Web Icons, too. “Altered Ego Fonts by Brian Sooy include web icons, pixel icons and eclectic dingbats, patriotic and American flag icons, display and text fonts, and custom font design.” For Macintosh and PCs. [Brian Sooy, Altered Ego Fonts.] - BitmapMania
Nearly 50 bitmap fonts, unique designs, and a variety of font sizes. All free. For PC and Mac. Created by BitmapMania. - dafont.com: bitmap fonts
dafont.com has a section devoted to an extensive collection of free or shareware bitmap fonts and dingbats, aka pixel fonts, screen fonts, small fonts. For PC and Mac. [dafont.com.] - dincTYPE
Free eight-bit bitmap fonts by dincTYPE (for Macs only). Other free and shareware fonts at the site for Macs and PCs, too. - Fountain Type Library
Great font foundry with over 42 fonts. In the Free fonts section is the font Sevenet, which is a 7-point small bitmap font in all capital letters, available in three versions; Lipo-D, a 9-point bitmap font available in three versions; Dopil, a 3-D pixel font based on Lipo-D, also by Peter Bruhn. Available for Macs and PC. - Free Pixel Fonts by Cal Henderson
Unique and interesting pixel fonts, all free, created by Cal Henderson. You'll find lowercase, uppercase, italic, cursive, narrow, and quite a few variants and sizes. Some of the names: Pixel Six and Pixel Six Italic, Cubic Five, Edgy, Handy, Indent, Topped, Square Dance and Square Dance Bold, Hellovetica, Braille, Small Hollows and Mini Hollows and Big Hollows, Accent, Pixel Portal. Available for Macs and PC. [Fonts created by Cal Henderson, iamcal.com.] - kaliber10000 {The Designer's Lunchbox}
Condensedpix, by Pete Hoang, is a free pixel font available (currently for Macs only) via k10k's merchandise section. (If above link doesn't work for you, try their main page, click on the 'tshirt' navigation icon for their merchandise page, and the free font is near the bottom of their listings.) - Kottke.org
Silkscreen font, by Jason Kottke. Well known 4-family screen font - Silkscreen, bold, expanded, expanded bold. Free, and for PCs and Macs. Best used at 8 points and derivatives . - MINI 7 font, by Joe Gillespie
A small, high quality font for Macs and for PCs. Already a popular font, this expanded version released January, 2001 now includes at least 7 fonts in this family — MINI 7, Tight, Bold, Condensed, Condensed Bold, Extended, Extended bold, and Extras. The Extras have a variety of shapes, arrows, characters that combine to make buttons and whatever your imagination manages. See Tenacity below for an uppercase, lowercase, and slightly larger version. - MiniFonts
An entire site of pixel fonts by Joe Gillespie and other top-notch font designers. Includes MINI 7, MiniMono, NanoSans, Tenacity, and many more. Inexpensive, top quality. He also has extras, such as arrows, circles, and more, a WebIcon pixel dingbat font, and a variety of sizes of pixel fonts. - nothing medialab gmbh
They're giving away several free pixel fonts for Macs and PCs, such as screenfox 9pt, spotdot 10pt, zedfox 20pt, importer, fiftyfox 26 52pt, and more. - Pinvoke Fonts
High quality free pixel fonts, available for personal or commercial use. At least 7 or 8 pixel font families here. “Base size: 8 points / Tracking (Photoshop): 0, 125, 250... / Smooth edges (super pixel font).” [Pixel fonts by Yuusuke Kamiyamane, for Pinvoke.] - Pixelate
Pixel fonts, handwriting fonts, and more. Designed for use with Flash or other graphics software. You'll find a variety of sizes and styles of all pixel fonts here, even a few script pixel fonts styles, which I don't see too often. See also their helpful Pixel Font Guide for how to use within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash), Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks). Free and commercial licenses available. (Very reasonably priced.) [Fonts via Pixelate, site by Kemie Guaida.]
- pixietype
Nice collection of pixel fonts, including dingbats. Most are commercial, but they have several free pixel fonts, too. - SelfBuildtype
Foundry with several pixel fonts from which to choose, such as WebSnap. Unique, interesting fonts here by owner Craig Stainton. Purchase online for immediate download (direct link to MyFonts). - Semplice Pixelfonts
You'll find at least 19 free pixel fonts in quite a few different styles and sizes - Marke Eigenbou (8px), Memoria Regular and Extended (8px), Munica Regular and Extended, Gros Regular and Extended, Semplice Regular and Extended (8px), Frucade Medium Regular and Extended (8px), Frucade Small Regular and Extended (8px), Frucade Regular and Extended (8px), Bavaria Regular and Extended (8px), Aurora Regular and Extended (8px) and new fonts added, too, so check back. [Fonts by Michael Schmidt, The Semplice Labs and by April-Design.] - Tenacity Font, by Joe Gillespie
Big brother to MINI 7 above, this new font of 6 font families includes lower case and upper case letters plus Tenacity Extras with borders, bullets, and arrows. - Type.co.uk: Pixel Fonts
Search results for pixel fonts at type.co.uk. Over 20 (commercial) pixel fonts and pixel icons from which to choose. For Windows, Mac, OpenType, and Truetype. [Pixel fonts via type.co.uk.] - Vectorize
Several screen fonts from which to choose. Growing collection. For PC, Mac. - zé
Site offers a couple of small bitmap fonts that also work with Flash — Pixelzim 3x5 regular or bold (PC Truetype), and Nokia Cellphone (PC and Mac versions).
Pixel and LED Fonts for Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash), Swish 
The free and commercial font resources listed here are created for or work well with Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash), Swish, or similar motion graphics software programs. Many of the fonts in the Pixel Fonts, Screen Fonts section directly above can work also, so be sure to check these out, too, along with the particular Web site's information.
See also Graphics
Adobe Flash Articles, Tutorials, Discussion Lists, Resources, Books, and Software for lots of top-notch resources on Adobe Flash.
- Flash Pixel Fonts
A great collection of pixel fonts for Flash, all of which are rated. Some are free, some are commercial. [Pixel fonts section part of the Best Flash Web site.] - FlashDen - Fonts
A variety of pixel fonts with Adobe Flash in mind, organized by serif pixel fonts, sans-serif pixel fonts and display pixel fonts. Great features at the site, too, including typing your own text with each font to see what you think. You must subscribe (free) and then purchase 'credits' to download the fonts or other items at the site. [Pixel fonts section part of the FlashDen Web site.] - Fonts for Flash
FFF (Fonts for Flash) provides quite a few high quality pixel fonts with Flash or Swish in mind. You'll find free pixel fonts, commercial pixel fonts, free and commercial dingbat fonts, trial versions of their commercial fonts, tutorials on how to use them, and more. You can also type in their form boxes to see how a font looks and even compare one font with another one at their site — helpful feature! [Web Site owned by FFF Web Media.] - LED Fonts
Over 50 LED fonts available via MyFonts.com (commercial fonts). Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters, dingbat LED fonts, symbol LED fonts. Many font styles from which to choose. [LED fonts section part of the MyFonts Web site.] - miniml.com
A nice collection of vector-based fonts created especially for use with Adobe Flash. Free and commercial fonts for Mac and PC. [Fonts created by Craig Kroeger, miniml.com.] - Orgdot Open Source
A growing list (10+ November 2005) of high quality pixel and LED fonts for use with Flash. Pixel fonts include Teacher's Pet pixel font family, Kharon4a_V01 pixel font family, and more, including sans-serif and serif pixel fonts. All free, and for Mac or PC. [Their Fonts section is a collective work of the Orgdot Consortium.] - The Pixel Plant
TrueType pixel fonts for Mac and PC that are “designed to work well in Flash and do not suffer from the blurring problems.” Some are free, and they offer two types of commercial fonts, “standard” pixel fonts and “ultra” pixel fonts. You can even buy their entire collection of 192 TrueType pixel fonts for US $25 (as of May 2007). [thepixelplant.net.] - Pixelate
Pixel fonts, handwriting fonts, and more. Designed for use with Flash or other graphics software. You'll find a variety of sizes and styles of all pixel fonts here, even a few script pixel fonts styles, which I don't see too often. See also their helpful Pixel Font Guide for how to use within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash), Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks). Free and commercial licenses available. (Very reasonably priced.) [Fonts via Pixelate, site by Kemie Guaida.]
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