PX150

A typeface built from a small set of units, allowed to change its mind.

The starting point

PX150 began with the restriction of building every letter from the same small set of units. The point was not to imitate a screen or make a nostalgic pixel font. It was to see how far a limited vocabulary could carry a typeface with a voice of its own.

The grid gives every character a shared beginning. From there, proportion, rhythm and the spaces between forms do the work that smooth curves usually do.

A small set of rules

The construction starts with a square unit and a consistent baseline. Strokes repeat, corners stay explicit and counters are kept open enough to survive at small sizes.

Those rules are useful because they make the exceptions visible. A diagonal needs to step differently from a vertical. A bowl needs to spend more units to remain legible. Each decision is made inside the same constraint rather than outside it.

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The rules can move

PX150 is variable rather than fixed. Its forms can become more open or more compact, lighter or more insistent, without losing the square logic they share.

The controls below are deliberately quiet. Change the scale and watch the same construction read as a different setting, not a different typeface.

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CHANGE / WITHOUT LOSING THE GRID

Scale changes the reading

At one size, the units read as a texture. At another, they become individual decisions. PX150 is made to let that change remain present instead of smoothing it away.

small / texture

PX150 IS A SYSTEM

large / structure

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Where the voice appears

Look at the joins, the stepped diagonals and the spaces that hold a letter together. PX150’s personality is less in a single unusual glyph than in the way these small choices repeat.

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Less explanation

Once the construction is familiar, the type can carry more of the page by itself.

SAME UNITS
DIFFERENT WEATHER

It stays useful

PX150 is most at home where scale, clarity and a little friction matter. These are not mockups of an imagined product. They are a few situations where its construction can be seen doing useful work.

SIGNAL

For a short message that needs to hold its shape at a distance.

INTERFACE

For labels where a compact alphabet can make hierarchy visible.

DISPLAY

For large words where the construction is part of the image.

Technical notes

The practical details belong here, after the typeface has had room to explain itself.

Format: Variable OpenType
Axes: Weight / width / pixel scale
Character set: Basic Latin, punctuation and symbols
Status: In progress

This first version is a place to keep looking. Trial files, licensing and credits can follow when the typeface is ready for them.

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