Fonts

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

Vector fonts

The newest fonts are at the top. There’s also a package of all these fonts.

E-Keet Slipstream Regular

A stylized monospace font, this includes all the box drawing characters needed for a DOS-style terminal. It works best at multiples of 13 points.

E-Keet Slipstream Bold

A counterpart to E-Keet Slipstream Regular, this features the same width and character set. It also works best at multiples of 13 points.

E-Keet 50Hz

This monospaced font is designed specifically for use in modern music trackers – check out the pound sign! It works best at multiples of 12 points.

E-Keet Compression

This font was originally made for use on my Handspring Visor PDA in order to fit maximum text on a line. It works best at multiples of 12 points.

E-Keet Winterlate A26

“A26” stands for “Alphabet 26”, my favorite unicase variant. It works best at multiples of 10 points.

E-Keet Winterlate BC

“BC” stands for “bicameral”, having a distinct lowercase. It also works best at multiples of 10 points.

E-Keet Pixelwood

Not enough serifed raster-style fonts exist in the world. This one works best at multiples of 16 points.

E-Keet Paragon Black

This was created as a replacement for the titling font in the 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.

Bitmap-style fonts

There’s a package of all these TrueType fonts for general use. They all work best at multiples of 8 points.

These fonts were originally designed as bitmap fonts for the music creation programs Impulse Tracker and Schism Tracker which use characters of fixed 8×8 pixel size. Many of these are packaged with those programs! There is a bundle of ITF files for users of the aforementioned trackers who want the whole set shown (along with a couple bonuses).

EK-ALTAI

This narrow, stencil-like font has a more developed vector 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 more developed 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-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-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-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.

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