PG Pixel . . .

'PG Pixel' is a Gurmukhi font that imitates the pixels either on a screen or on a printout of dot-matrix type. There are essentially two patterns in two pixel shapes with the square shape having two weights making a total of six fonts as you can see on the right.

The 11 fonts are based on a cell size of 1x1 pixel and the 21 fonts are based on a 2x1 cell size which manifest themselves in the forms you can see on the right.

The square fonts (S and SL) are like either the square pixels on a screen or the square heat cells on a thermal printer whereas the circular fonts (R) are like the pins on a dot-matrix printer.

The square fonts have two options: a normal one (S) where each square occupies 75 per cent of the area for each picture element (pixel); and, a light version (SL) where each square occupies 44 per cent of the area for each picture element. The S version occupies 130x130 out of 150x150 units which gives a nice solid letter form but the SL version occupies 100x100 out of 150x150 units so it has a vertical and horizontal 2/3 coverage which, if you are trying to get a raster to have nice, neat borders, you might find works better at small letter sizes.

Whichever you choose for your application, you can add noise to modulate the outlines as you can see if you click on the image below that has a light background.

Examples of artwork with PG Pixel . . .
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Hover the mouse over the images below to show examples of font characters and weights

Download PG Pixel . . .

Download Pixel-Round 11 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-r_11.ttf': 199,516 bytes.

Download Pixel-Round 21 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-r_21.ttf': 322,124 bytes.

Download Pixel-Square-Light 11 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-sl_11.ttf': 65,036 bytes.

Download Pixel-Square-Light 21 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-sl_21.ttf': 101,888 bytes.

Download Pixel-Square 11 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-s_11.ttf': 66,172 bytes.

Download Pixel-Square 21 Extra-Light TrueType font 'pixel-s_21.ttf': 103,156 bytes.

Have you got the latest version of one of these fonts? If you have just downloaded it from this site, you have. Otherwise, you can check any font file by comparing the hash function results of the file on your computer with the values in the list by clicking here for text file and here for a web page - opens in a new tab. Select the font file on your system and look at the properties. Compare the hash result against the values in the table. These pages are kept up-to-date so whenever I update a font or create a new one, it will be on there.

Download All Fonts

You can download all of the fonts from all of the font families on this site in one compressed archive by clicking here for a ZIP file or here for a TAR.GZ file

You have the freedom to use these fonts for personal or commercial use although you are forbidden to: charge for them; or, modify and distribute the modified font. If you want something different or even completely new for a specific purpose, email me - see below.

I allow you to use my fonts for free because I believe that morally, everybody should have equal access, regardless of availability of resources - In this way, those who genuinely have not got the money to pay a license fee for a font use can continue to access this resource for free. If I insisted on charging for them for private/non-commercial use then you would be looking at anything from around £50 for a single user.

If you are using the fonts for business purposes, you are not facing bankruptcy and your business model includes paying those that have produced resources that you are using, then you might want to consider making a contribution towards the time, artistic and technological investment that I have made in these fonts as well as the ongoing costs of running and maintaining a production server 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

To give you an idea of what the commercial use charges are: the charge for a book is GBP100; and, for a single multinational film production, GBP1,000. Websites are free. If you are paying me for use, or just want to make a contribution, make sure that you send me any details you want to me to publish so that they can go on the contributors' page.

To make a contribution, click here ...

If you want to make a contribution directly using PayPal, my email address is paul.alan.grosse@gmail.com and please include your name and if relevant, your company and the project so that they can be included on the contributors page with a link if appropriate.

To see a list of contributors, click here.

Thank you.

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