It looks like one of the Pixel Fonts created to provide legibility at very small screen sizes in Flash. Of course it also looks like just about every screen font when set with an X height of 5px and no antialiasing.

I assumed it was just an MS system font rendered at 9 or 10 pixels high, but none of the usual suspects quite match. Verdana is fairly close at 9px.

‘Geneva’..

Dav, formlos

Thanks guys, it’s definitely Geneva. Is there any way to bitmap it? I’m still a bit of a newcomer when it comes to typography, do I need some sort of program? (I have Adobe CS)

Well, it depends, what OS are you running? Using Geneva as a bitmap font is difficult, if not impossible, in Mac OS X, as it scales type using the PostScript outlines by default, and won’t allow you to use the bitmap font suitcase without its Postscript outline. If you have an older Mac running Mac OS 9.x or lower, you can just turn off Adobe’s ATM and scale the font to an appropriately large size and it’ll be plenty blocky. You don’t even need Photoshop: you can just use SimpleEdit and take a screen shot of the text once you have it entered the way you want. Indirect, but it’ll work.

Actually, that’s a good question: does anyone know how to do this with Postscript fonts in Mac OS X? If nobody does, benski, and you don’t have Classic installed or an older version of Mac OS, you might need to get one of the new-school TrueType bitmap fonts, which are specially designed to look blocky.

I think the Geneva that ships with OS X is a TrueType font hinted to match the old bitmaps at smaller sizes. Turn of anti-aliasing at those sizes and see if it matches.

In PhotoShop, just set your type on a 72 Ppi blank canvas, in 9 Pts ‘Geneva’, and, select ‘None’ from the anti aliasing options within the type dialog box..

Dav, formlos

That font is not Geneva, It is very similar and you will get the desired effect mentioned above but it is infact B-FUQ By Micheal C Place AKA Build www.designbybuild.co.uk the sample is a grab from his site, it used to be on sale but isnt any more other examples can be found at http://www.umeric.com/

http://www.stewartmcmillan.co.uk

http://www.stewartmcmillan.co.uk

Youre right, Stewart, but.: FUQ a ‘B-FUQ’.. ( As far as I can see, and as far as the sample goes, the only difference between ‘Verdana’ and ‘B-FUQ’ is ‘W’ + ‘G’.. Hmm.. I wonder why the typeface is currently not commercially available.? :)

> img219.imageshack.us/img219/3140/genevavsbfuq1fn.gif
( ‘Verdana’ > Mods > ‘B-FUQ’ )

Dav, formlos

Very true formlos, opening up a can of worms here… ;)

http://www.stewartmcmillan.co.uk

Try this… I created a PostScript version of Geneva’s 9 pt bitmap for Image Club back in 1991. New Geneva Nine is currently available through Fonts.com.