Gretel and FF Nelio might not be what you’re looking for, but they are others in this elegant pixel genre.

You might also like FF Screenstar which is a simple pixel sans, but a tad more style than FF Screen Matrix.

Nick Shinn’s Panoptica is also very interesting and Unibody is without doubt the finest free pixel family.

Here are a few others to try:

• DT Corsa & DT Ciny
• Memoria Regular
• Methodic

As an aside, does anybody know what happened to Atomic Media?

> Unibody is without doubt the finest free pixel family.

Based on its weaknesses (primitive construction,
dysfunctional italic) I myself doubt plenty.

On the other hand (?) it is good enough that
they did the field a disservice by making it free.

hhp

Based on its weaknesses (primitive construction, dysfunctional italic)

I’ve not yet seen an 8 pixel high font that doesn’t have primitive construction and dysfunctional italics. How could it be anything else?

I said primitive construction. Using discrete squares to render out the pixels is the lowest form of pixelfont; it causes (at least) two problems, plus it makes the font unnecessarily large in K. As for the Italic, the real problem I guess is simply pretending it is one. If they had called it Cursive then I would have no issue, since users would know what it’s not.

hhp

Another problem with Unibody is its obsession with ductus, even in such a coarse medium/size; look at how ungainly the bold “y” is. Dogma interfering with Design.

hhp

Hrant, my font anatomy/vocabulary is very limited. What is ’ductus’ in relation to type?

See the typowiki: ductus

It refers to the “action” of the broad-nib pen (when used by a right-hander).
If you’re smelling a rat, you have a good nose.

hhp

>> Unibody is without doubt the finest free pixel family.

> Based on its weaknesses (primitive construction, dysfunctional italic) I myself doubt plenty.

Hrant, please point me to some pixel families that you prefer to Unibody.

I just said I have doubt, not that I could name
offhand any free* ones that are better. :-)

* Your criterion above, and a good one.

hhp

Ductus refers to the “action” of the broad-nib pen (when used by a right-hander).
If you’re smelling a rat, you have a good nose.

Hrant, should I smell a rat? I first saw it merely as a design affectation but now I can see what you’re saying about the ductus of the bold y, v and w. Would I be right in saying that the Ductal Logic hasn’t been consistently applied to the middle upright of the bold w?

There are free pixel fonts galore here...

http://pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/museum.cgi

...with, I would guess, a broad range of Ductal Logics. (my new favourite phrase :)

My point was forcing ductal logic on a 10ppem* font (or really any font) comes at the expense of Good Design. The “w” on the other hand goes against ductal logic and still manages to look crappy.

* I don’t know where people get 8.

> a broad range of Ductal Logics.

Yes, and we sadly only have one single font
so far that properly breaks the logic: Legato.

hhp

Thanks a lot! Good help.