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No. 16 / 16 · Pixel · DisplaySpecimen · 2026-10-27

Cap 700X 500Base 0Desc −200Outline

A wide stencil face for machines: cells at 1.5× width, steps filled, bars slit.

Glyphs 107Styles 1Kerning noneUPM 800Cap 700x 500WOFF2 3.0 KBTTF 8.9 KBSizes anyChecksum 916E
00Type tester

Try it

RACK 10 · BAY 4

72 px · click the text to edit it

01Construction

How it is built

Pip 57's cells drawn 150 units wide and 100 tall. Wherever two cells touch only at a corner, the triangle between them is filled, so diagonals run at a clean slope instead of stepping.

A 40-unit slit is cut through the middle of every horizontal bar three or more cells long, which reads as a stencil and keeps the wide bars from going flat.

A vector face: it works at any size. The tester and the waterfall use the house steps.

PLATE 16.1 · CONSTRUCTION · BULKHEAD E24 ON-CURVE · 0 OFF-CURVE · STRAIGHT
Baseline 0x-height 500Cap height 700Descender −2001234
  1. NodeAn on-curve point at (750, 700). 24 in this glyph.
  2. CornerStraight segments only: 24 nodes and no handles.
  3. Advance900 units wide: 0 of space on the left, 150 on the right.
  4. SlitA 40-unit slit through every bar three or more cells long reads as a stencil.
Plate 16.1. Bulkhead E, drawn from the built font file: every square is a node and every ring a handle the outline really has.
02Spacing

How it fits

PLATE 16.2 · SPACING · BULKHEADMONOSPACED
12
  1. Advance boxEvery glyph is 900 units wide: monospaced, so columns line up.
  2. Side bearingsR keeps 0 units of space on the left and 150 on the right. No kerning: the boxes do the spacing.
Plate 16.2. Bulkhead fitted by its advance boxes alone, drawn from the hmtx table.
03Waterfall

Every size it is drawn for

120 pxRACK 10 · BAY 4
72 pxRACK 10 · BAY 4
48 pxRACK 10 · BAY 4
32 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
25 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
20 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
16 pxSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
04Character set

All 109 characters

Char
E
Code point
U+0045
Glyph
E
Advance
900
LSB · RSB
0 · 150
Contours · points
4 · 24

Uppercase · 26

Lowercase · 26

Figures · 10

Punctuation and symbols · 47

05In use

Good at

Equipment label72 · 32 px

RACK 10

BAY 4 · 10 INCH

06Download

Get Bulkhead

TTF for desktops, WOFF2 for the web, or the zip with both, the licence and a readme. Free for anything, commercial included, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

CSS · put the .woff2 next to your stylesheet
@font-face {
  font-family: "Bulkhead";
  src: url("Bulkhead-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}

h1 { font-family: "Bulkhead", sans-serif; }