A downloadable font

Plain Pixel is a 11pt base monospaceish* pixel font for signs and other text in pixel art. It has just over 19000 characters and support for a large number of languages. If you have any issues, feedback, or requests, please leave a comment below! 

Characters

Current Version 0.007 - More CJK and some tweaks

This version of Plain Pixel contains the following Unicode blocks:

Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-ABC, Latin Extended Additional, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letter, Combining Diacritical Marks

Greek and Coptic

Cyrillic, Cyrillic Supplement

Armenian

Hebrew

Arabic, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended-B, Arabic Extended-A, Arabic Presentation Forms-A (except large ligatures), Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Thai

Georgian, Georgian Extended

Cherokee

General Punctuation: quotes, double quotes, reversed semicolon only

Supplemental Punctuation: reversed comma only

Geometric Shapes

CJK Symbols & Punctuation, CJK Strokes, CJK Compatibility

CJK Unified Ideographs (~2700 characters. This isn't enough for proper Chinese/Japanese support, but we'll get there! Note: Legibility for more complex characters is reduced due to size restrictions.)

Ideographic Description Characters

Hiragana, Katakana

Bopomofo

Kanbun

Hangeul Syllables, Hangul Compatibility Jamo

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

This font may contain errors or have stylistic issues. Please check back periodically for future updates.

There may be extra characters from other blocks that are not yet fully supported. See the roadmap for details.

Roadmap

- Better CJK support

- Better SE and S Asian language support

License 

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You can use this font in both personal and commercial products, and also make modifications as long as you attribute Douglas Vautour (Burpy Fresh). Please let me know if you decide to use this font in your project! I'd love to see it! Please post screenshots in the comments!

*This font will always be free, but I may ask for donations in the future. At that point, if you have found this font useful, please feel free to donate. :) 

Recommended Attribution

"Plain Pixel Font" by  Douglas Vautour (Burpy Fresh) is licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Notes

*Characters for most languages have a 5 x 11 base, but can extend vertically. Double width characters, such as Hiragana and Katakana are 11 x 11.


More information

Download

Download
PlainPixel-Regular-V0_007.zip 310 kB

Install instructions

Windows - Open the Windows Font Viewer. This is usually done by double clicking on the font file. Click on the Install button.

Mac - Drag font file into the ~/Fonts folder.

Unity Usage Notes

In the Font Asset Creator in TextMeshPro, using a Sample Size (Point Size) of 30, padding to 1px, setting Render Mode to RASTER, and turning off "Get Font Features" will give the best results. (If 30 provides misshapen blocks try higher numbers. This number may increase if there are particular high characters in the font.)

After creating the Font Asset, tap the arrow on its icon to expand, go to the Atlas, and set the filter mode to "Point". This will stop any rounding and keep your font looking crisp!

This font displays properly at point sizes that are multiples of 30 (or the number you used above). Using any other point sizes isn't recommended unless you're intentionally looking for a distorted style.

Development log

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