Bitcount Single Ink
Designed By
Petr van Blokland
9 Styles Display
The evening
edition.
Bitcount Single Ink · Regular
Try a short headline and compare the letterforms at a larger scale.
9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Bitcount Single Ink ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Headline In Place
Bitcount Single Ink · Regular
A poster setting with supporting text.
Theatre / Music / Conversation
An Evening
In Good
Company.
Friday · 7:30 pm
The Assembly Rooms
9 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
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Under the color in Bitcount Single Ink sits Petr van Blokland’s minimum grid. 5 pixels of x-height is the least that will draw an a and an e; a row more on top for ascenders and a row underneath for descenders bring it to 5 pixels wide and 7 high, and every Bitcount letter lives in that space.
From those 35 pixels he built a very large family. Styles vary in how accents are articulated, in stems 1 or 2 pixels thick (Single and Double), in roman or slanted, normal or condensed, and in the shape of the pixel itself, from small squares to large circles.
Ink is the color version. Bitcount Single Ink is built on COLRv1, and its point is layering: stack several copies of a word in different colors and pixel shapes, nudge 1 layer a little off center, and you get shadows, highlights and a 3D look with no images involved. The variable font goes much further, with 11 axes that control weight, slant, pixel shape and size and the offset of 2 color layers. The static styles come in 9 weights from Thin to Black.
Van Blokland lists uses that run from the obvious to the charming:
- decorative, multi-colored headlines
- running LED displays and other hardware with a fixed grid
- tiny text on low-resolution screens and printers
- a template for physical lettering in LEGO bricks, flowerpots or the lit windows of a building
Small caps, old-style figures and 7 stylistic sets come along too. It arrived in January 2025, and for a retro game screen or a festival poster it is hard to beat.
Characters & Figures
396 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 393 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Bitcount Single Ink
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 600 KB ↓- Version
- 1.002
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/bitcount-single-ink/bitcount-single-ink.css">
body {
font-family: 'Bitcount Single Ink', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Bitcount Single Ink Heading · Inter Body
The Evening Performance
Doors open at seven. The performance begins at half past. Please take your seat before the lights go down.