So I know there are many, many of these. I also know that many of the characters are the same as other 3x5 fonts (sort of by necessity). But anyway...

I spent a stupid amount of time trying to make the best possible 3x5 pixel font for general use, and I wanted to share it with you all! Hopefully you like it enough to use it!

Features

• It's a true 3x5 font.
  • There are no descenders or ascenders that go outside the 3x5 footprint.
  • This makes it suitable for use in sprite sheets that have each sprite take up only 3x5 pixels total.
  • It also means lines of text can be drawn closer together!
• The baselines and midlines of all characters (mostly) match, which drastically improves legibility.
  • This took a LOT of trial and error. I'm still open to feedback.
• An effort was made to unify the style of all characters, whenever possible.
  • A lot of 3x5 fonts, while often legible, sadly look like a jumbled box of letters from different typefaces. I wanted to make this look like a cohesive font, which actually improved legibility a surprising amount.
• It supports all 94 printable ASCII characters!
• It comes in 4 different sprite sheet formats, in addition to proportional and monospaced font files in 3 different formats each!

Download

You can download all the formats here!

Demo

My GitHub Pages directory uses this font!

License

Creative Commons Zero (CC0) / Public Domain

No need to credit me, but it would be nice if you did. :3

So I know there are many, many of these. I also know that many of the characters are the same as other 3x5 fonts (sort of by necessity). But anyway...

I spent a stupid amount of time trying to make the best possible 3x5 pixel font for general use, and I wanted to share it with you all!

This is my first time making a font, so please give me feedback! I am still learning what makes typography "look good" and "appear legible", so I may not have considered something.

Features

• It's a true 3x5 font.
  • There are no descenders or ascenders that go outside the 3x5 footprint.
  • This makes it suitable for use in sprite sheets that have each sprite take up only 3x5 pixels total.
  • It also means lines of text can be drawn closer together!
• The baselines and midlines of all characters (mostly) match, which drastically improves legibility.
  • This took a LOT of trial and error. I'm still open to feedback.
• An effort was made to unify the style of all characters, whenever possible.
  • A lot of 3x5 fonts, while often legible, sadly look like a jumbled box of letters from different typefaces. I wanted to make this look like a cohesive font, which actually improved legibility a surprising amount.
• It supports all 94 printable ASCII characters!
• It comes in 4 different sprite sheet formats, in addition to proportional and monospaced font files in 3 different formats each!

Download

You can download all the formats here!

Demo

My GitHub Pages directory uses this font!

License

Creative Commons Zero (CC0) / Public Domain

No need to credit me, but it would be nice if you did. :3

I wanted something fancy to show off my new 3x5 pixel font, and I decided to go with an alphabetic acrostic sentence. However, I wanted to add the extra challenge of including all uppercase AND lowercase characters. The easiest way to do that, I figured, was to capitalize each word, meaning I wanted to write it like a headline.

>Angry Buzzing Citizens Denounced Equine Federal Government Hijackers In July, Keeping Local Militias Near Our Public Quarters, Rapidly Silencing Toxic Underworld Violence Without Xenografting Young Zebras.

So I know there are many, many of these. I also know that many of the characters are the same as other 3x5 fonts (sort of by necessity). But anyway...

I spent a stupid amount of time trying to make the best possible 3x5 pixel font for general use, and I wanted to share it with you all! Hopefully you like it enough to use it!

Features

• It's a true 3x5 font.
  • There are no descenders or ascenders that go outside the 3x5 footprint.
  • This makes it suitable for use in sprite sheets that have each sprite take up only 3x5 pixels total.
  • It also means lines of text can be drawn closer together!
• The baselines and midlines of all characters (mostly) match, which drastically improves legibility.
  • This took a LOT of trial and error. I'm still open to feedback.
• An effort was made to unify the style of all characters, whenever possible.
  • A lot of 3x5 fonts, while often legible, sadly look like a jumbled box of letters from different typefaces. I wanted to make this look like a cohesive font, which actually improved legibility a surprising amount.
• It supports all 94 printable ASCII characters!
• It comes in 4 different sprite sheet formats, in addition to proportional and monospaced font files in 3 different formats each!

Download

You can download all the formats here!

Demo

My GitHub Pages directory uses this font!

License

Creative Commons Zero (CC0) / Public Domain

No need to credit me, but it would be nice if you did. :3

I have been writing with3x5 characters ever since I learned how to take pixel art notes on my TI-83+ graphing calculator back in school. However, some uppercase characters like Q, many symbols like &, and almost all lowercase letters confounded me at the time. Now, as an adult, one of my projects calls for a highly legible 3x5 font with full ASCII support. I put this one together using my existing glyph drawing methods while looking at many different images online to get ideas for areas that stumped me. I'm pretty happy with the final result!

You can get the sprite sheet here if you want it! The leftmost X coordinate of a character's glyph can be calculated as X = get_ascii_code(character) * 3.

Found in my Google Drive when searching for something entirely different.