I had some fun today making a monospaced pixel font on 3 by 3 pixel grid. I started by sketching a bunch.
I made the digital version with BitFontMaker2. I think I've covered the basic ASCII character set.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2x - ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ -
I love how really restrictive limitations can still feel kind of fun to play around in. There's an entire gallery of much more polished and usable bitmap fonts, but now I've got a little permalink to my font, which feels nice!
Here's a more comprehensive typographic test with a whole bunch of different words:
aaron abduct accidental adjacent aeron afghan after agnostic aint anaheim and anybody although allotted ambidextrous amend announced aqua arrangement ask aspin ate attitude authorised avant avery award axolotl baby baghdad banana balter batty baste beeped bent binded billow bizarre blood bottle bowwow boyfriend builder bubbly buzzing byproduct bystander byzantine cappuccino cattle cent chant cicero close coccyx cooked copyright coyote croquet cumbersome cutting cycle cylinder czech dabble daddy day dear dented divide don't drown during dyke each ebb eek ensnare eons epiphany estuary etcetera etching equine ew fabric farming feared filler fizzy fjord fluid foggy foxxy frontal fungal gaggle geared gifted gong gnome grubby gush happened happiness hellish hinge hope hungry hyphen ian icy idiot i'm impossible intolerant iota it's irritant i've jazzy jagged jenga jill joint just kangaroo kettle kitchen kookaburra kong laboratory landing left likely lilac little loco lolly lover's luna luxurious lying master metres miss moonlight morph mr mrs ms mummy nasal neanderthal necessarily nine nifty nonsense noon numb oar obfuscate occult oddly often oh okay omission oscillate ozone parallel pang pear phase picnic pneumonic poppy porous psychology punch pygmy quantum queen quince quota radii rafferty rattle reassure resist retiree rice roommate running sassafras savvy scent scuttle seismic shamed shining sieve sister skink slump snide soup spire stay subject sultana svelte swiftly swung tallied tattooed tension the theatre title totally trekked tutor twenty tying vacuum variable vent vivid void vulnerable vying waffle wally warranted water weather whale winch withheld worry wurst wysiwyg wyvern xavier xenon xmas xylophone yak yeah yip you're yuck zac zeal zigzag zing zodiac zoo
Here are a whole bunch of links to inspiration & better versions of this kind of thing... I'd love to come back to these at some point and intentionally steal whatever good ideas I haven't already accidentally stolen from them: