Carrd.co pixel fonts can be super fun to design a site with. Building an aesthetic carrd or a site that references retro gaming? These rasterized fonts will help you bring that retro style across. They can also work as an eye catcher when using them sparingly as display fonts for a headline or a one-off design element on your site.
Fonts can be hard to find and preview in Carrd itself so we have compiled this list as your companion for selecting the pixel-perfect font. Easily preview any text sample and go back to designing in Carrd in no time. Visit our Carrd fonts page for a list and live previews of each and every font available in Carrd.
Aren’t all fonts pixel fonts?
Yes and no. Of course, fonts are rendered as pixels on the screens we use. But when we say pixel fonts we are referring to those retro looking fonts that mimic technology invented decades ago. And we include dot matrix style fonts which have a similar but slightly different heritage. Pixel fonts are designed after text rendered on low-resolution computer or gaming device screens. Dot matrix techniques can be found in early printers or specialized text displays like traffic signs. Use these fonts wisely and with the right colors and that retro feel will translate to your site really nicely.
Our favorite Pixel fonts available in Carrd
Press Start 2P
If Mario were designing his Carrd – we bet he’d be all in on this pixel font. Press Start 2P captures the joy of old-school arcades and works great in black on white or white on black – true to it’s origins. But it’ll make it’s point just as well if your choice is neon pink.
Silkscreen
The Silkescreen pixel font was designed for rendering type at small sizes for the web. It has that retro-computing look and is clean at the same time. Also works well when used for large type. An awesome font choice for a minimal looking design. And designed by a real OG of the web: Jason Kottke.
Doto
This is a great looking dot matrix typeface designed on a 6×10 grid of dots. The space between the dots decreases with increasing font weight. And it is almost gone for the Heavy font weight. Try adjusting the weight when increasing/decreasing font size for best results.
Jacquard 12
The roots of this typeface are almost ancient. It dates back to 1880 Berlin where a certain Heinrich Kühn designed it for knitting type. Since designing fonts for knitting and for pixel displays is pretty much the same, we get a 1980s retro look from a 1880s old design. Pretty neat. Of and if you wonder why it’s called “Jacquard 12” – The 12 indicates the height of the capital letters in pixels.
More pixel and dot matrix fonts
Pixelify Sans
A typical pixel font featuring the typical blocky, pixelated appearance. But with a twist. It does bring some personality to your site. Look closely and you’ll see some characters like e and H have a very unique design. This makes this font very recognizable.
Tiny5
The font Tiny5 experiments with using the least amount of pixels to render text that is still legible and great looking. And it definitely explores the edges of both goals. Some glyphs (fancy word for letters) like the lower case e are somewhat deformed. And reading a longer text in this font will not be very pleasing to the eye. So it’s probably used best sparingly as a display font. Of course, the choice is yours to make.
Micro 5
This is another typeface with a knitting background. It was designed for knitters – and caters just as well to web designers looking for a a tiny pixel font. The height of the letters is 5 pixels. But they may stray from the baseline so your average line of text uses a height of 6 pixels. Of course in a design for a modern screen you’ll use it in a scaled up version.
DotGothic16 Pixel Font
Designed from a 16×16 pixel grid this pixel font has become widely popular. It is supposed to be highly readable but we disagree slightly. It does have some character width issues. These are most pronounced for words with lower case Ls. You can also notice them elsewhere. It does contribute to a certain back in the days look though.
Sixtyfour and Workbench
Workbench and Sixtyfour were designed by the same font designer, Jens Kutilek. They emulate Commodore 64 and Amiga Workbench fonts from the early days of personal computing. Ready to nerd out about these typefaces? Read the article that inspired their creation: Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC).
Handjet
This font uses a grid of same size elements (aka pixels) to make up each character. This ranges from round dots to joined square pixels depending on the font weight. Carrd lets you choose the weight. The weight ‘light’ renders as dots with the dots getting thicker as you increase the weight. They have almost no gaps at at Semi bold and above.
Make sure to try the different weights in Carrd – they give you quite a range of different looks.
Interestingly, this font has rendering issues on MacOS computers, giving it a less predictable look. This affects the weights Bold, Extra bold and Heavy.
And that’s a wrap. Have fun designing with these fonts.
All Carrd fonts
Didn’t find what you were looking for? Check out our Carrd font preview tool – it will not only give you the full list of around 500 Carrd fonts available. It also comes with tex previews so you can choose exactly the font you need for your project.
Aesthetic Carrd Templates
Looking for more inspiration or a free carrd template? Look no further. Here’s our aesthetic template collection.
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