wght
Weight
There is no pen stroke to thicken. Weight makes each lit cell fill more of its lens, and the cell widens with it so the diagonals keep their width.
Light → Bold
RANGE 19850
Free · OFL · 0.100
RETROCHUNKI
A sixteen-segment display face. Capitals, figures and a lean, with an unlit twin for every character. Free under the OFL.
Free for any use, commercial included, under the SIL Open Font License. The download holds OTF, TTF, a variable TTF and WOFF2.
RANGE 19850
RANGE 19850
About
Every glyph is a list of lit segments on one fixed grid: two bars across the top, two across the middle, two across the bottom, four uprights and four diagonals into the centre. That is the smallest grid that spells A to Z as well as 0 to 9, and the one nearly every real sixteen-segment display has used.
The cell is a lens with pointed ends, after F. W. Wood's 1910 patent for an illuminated shipboard signal. Points meeting at a node face each other across one even gap, at a corner, a T or the centre cross alike.
Like the hardware, it has no lowercase, and some characters are as close as they are on a real display: S and 5 light the same segments. Context tells them apart.
Type tester
RANGE 19850 - DEFLECTION 46
OpenType
Variable axes
slnt
Slant
Plenty of real segment displays lean. Slant shears every glyph about its own baseline, from upright to twelve degrees.
Upright → Slanted
DEFLECTION 46
OpenType
ss01
Unlit
Each character has an unlit twin: only the segments it leaves dark. Set a line twice in the same place, once plain and once with Unlit in a dimmer color, and the dark cells show behind the lit ones.
CEASE 0812
Lit
CEASE 0812
Unlit
CEASE 0812
Weights
LIGHT 300
REGULAR 400
MEDIUM 500
BOLD 700
In use
Readout
A range display, Bold.
RANGE 19850
Clock
Figures and a colon, Regular.
04:12:37
Order
A fixed order, Light.
COMMENCE
Specimens
Glyph grid
Every mapped character in 0.100.
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- Name
- —
- Code point
- U+0052
- Advance
- —
Basic Latin 47
General Punctuation 1
Mathematical Operators 1
Specifications
- Version
- 0.100
- Glyphs
- 78
- Formats
- OTF, TTF, Variable TTF, WOFF2
- Variable axes
- Weight, Slant
- Scripts
- Latin capitals and figures
- OpenType
- Unlit
- Licenses
- SIL Open Font License 1.1 (free)
License
Free, under the SIL Open Font License.
Use RetroChunki in print, on the web, in apps and in logos, for personal or commercial work, at no charge. You may share and bundle the fonts; you may not sell them on their own. The full terms are in OFL.txt inside the download and at openfontlicense.org. The Cast Iron Type EULA on the license page covers the paid faces only.