Fonts

All these fonts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Vector fonts

These TrueType fonts were created with a combination of FontStruct and FontForge. The newest fonts are at the top.

E-Keet Winterlate A26

“A26” stands for “Alphabet 26”, my favorite unicase variant.

E-Keet Winterlate BC

“BC” stands for “bicameral”, having a distinct lowercase.

E-Keet Pixelwood

Not enough serifed raster-style fonts exist in the world.

E-Keet Paragon Black

This was created as a replacement for the titling font in the defunct MMORPG City of Heroes.

E-Keet Beans

This started life as a monospaced raster font for Impulse Tracker.

E-Keet Altaica

This font was also designed for Impulse Tracker.

Raster fonts

These were designed for the music creation programs Impulse Tracker 2 and Schism Tracker which use characters of fixed 8×8 pixel size. Many of these are packaged with those programs! There's a bundle of ITF files for users who want the whole set.

EK-ALTAI

This narrow, stencil-like font has a corresponding TrueType font shown above.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-ALTAI. It is a bold and somewhat condensed font, featuring gaps where connections can be implied.

EK-ANGLE

Oblique letters go a long way toward breaking up a monospace grid.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-ANGLE. This is a conventional sans-serif font with a strong slant.

EK-BEANS

This short, highly rounded font also has a corresponding TrueType font above!

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-BEANS. It is a thin and wide lowercase-only font, notable for its “uppercase” using lowercase forms in bold.

EK-BINGO

Exaggerated thickness makes for a fun diversion from the everyday grind.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-BINGO. This sans-serif font shows fat vertical strokes toward the left and thin ones to the right, giving it a friendly feel.

EK-LOSS

This is an experiment to see how much can be removed from a letterform while leaving it distinct enough to be read.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-LOSS. This is a tech-styled sans-serif font with forms that feature gaps and absent strokes.

EK-MAC

Who hasn’t had at least a brief love affair with the classic Macintosh system font, Chicago?

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-MAC. It is a geometric sans-serif adapted from the classic Macintosh computer font Chicago.

EK-PIPED

Joints and pipes are partially the inspiration for this somewhat abstract font.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-PIPED. A thin-lined tech-styled sans-serif, this font features fragmented geometric letterforms.

EK-PIPER

The above font is strengthened and made more readable with a thicker stroke.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-PIPER. It is a stylized sans-serif font with both thick and thin strokes along with gaps where strokes can be implied.

EK-RACER

Inspiration struck from watching a friend play an old game with a similar font on the Atari 800.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-RACER. This blobby font features thicker strokes along left and bottom, giving it a playful feel.

EK-RIVET

Mechanical, serifed, modern, and somewhat steampunk – this is a personal favorite.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-RIVET. This is a geometric serifed font. The box-drawing characters have dots to imply rivets.

EK-SKOOL

Skoolhaus has a certain basic, geometric, childlike appeal.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-SKOOL. Reminiscent of handwriting lessons from childhood, this font has thin and strongly geometric strokes.

EK-SLIDE

Instead of smaller, why not make the lowercase... lighter?

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-SLIDE. This all-caps sans-serif font is comparatively small, and the uppercase is bolder than the rest.

EK-SOLST

Save for extended characters, Solstice is converted directly from the NES game of the same name (and thus is not covered under the Creative Commons license).

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-SOLST. This font from the NES game Solstice is reminiscent of brushed uncial script with an added uppercase.

EK-SPACE

My very first Impulse Tracker font. Not exciting, but also not very distracting.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-SPACE. This is a straightforward sans-serif with a few rounded corners in the lowercase.

EK-SPELL

Making music... with a Speak&Spell? (Note: The track “Spell Machine” came first.)

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-SPELL. This is an approximation of a sixteen-segment LED display, similar to those used in the original Speak&Spell toy.

EK-TEK

Space made angular, this is tied with Rivet for my frequency of use.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-TEK. This very tech-inspired font features beveled corners at the top-right and bottom-left.

EK-TEMP

This broken serifed font, a mutation of Rivet, never got a better name.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-TEMP. This thin-lined serifed font features geometric forms interrupted by gaps. It is effectively a lighter form of EK-RIVET.

EK-TI81

This is precisely, pixel-for-pixel, the font used on the TI-81 graphing calculator (and thus is not covered under the Creative Commons license).

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-TI81. This is the thin-lined, utilitarian sans-serif font used on the TI-81 graphing calculator.

EK-TI994

This is precisely, pixel-for-pixel, the font used in the TI-99/4A home computer (and thus is not covered under the Creative Commons license).

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-TI994. This plain, thin-lined sans-serif font was used in the TI-99/4A home computer. It features a rectangular “O” and smallcaps.

EK-VGAME

Its uppercase comes from most early NES games, and its lowercase comes specifically from Metroid (and thus is not covered under the Creative Commons license).

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-VGAME. This sans-serif font, based on the NES game Metroid, features a strong uppercase and a delicate looped lowercase.

EK-WINTR

Winterfresh is stark, square, and just chilly enough to be crisp. It provided some of the inspiration for the font “E-Keet Paragon Black” listed above.

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-WINTR. This is a slightly small, aggressively rectilinear font with dense, bold strokes.

EK-ZELDA

This font is converted from the Gameboy game The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (and thus is not covered under the Creative Commons license).

Full display of the 8×8 pixel font EK-ZELDA. This is a thin-lined oblique font reminiscent of print handwriting. It’s taken from the Gameboy game The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.