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No. 06 / 16 · PixelSpecimen · 2026-10-27

Cap 500Base 0Outline

A 3×5 micro face for HUD readouts and labels, sharp down to 16 px.

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Glyphs 79Styles 1Kerning noneUPM 800Cap 500WOFF2 1.8 KBTTF 6.1 KBSizes 16 · 32 · 48 · 72 · 120Checksum C061
00Type tester

Try it

HP 28/30 · SEED 4127

72 px · 9 px cells · click the text to edit it

01Construction

How it is built

Capitals are three cells wide and five tall. M, N and W take four or five cells, because a three-cell M is a guess.

It is unicase: lowercase sets the capitals, so a label stays one height. At 16 px every cell is two pixels and nothing is grey.

One cell is the font size divided by eight, so at 16, 32, 48, 72 and 120 px every edge lands on a whole pixel. The tester and the waterfall only offer those sizes.

PLATE 6.1 · CONSTRUCTION · TICK 35 M18 ON-CURVE · 0 OFF-CURVE · STRAIGHT
Baseline 0Cap height 5001234
  1. NodeAn on-curve point at (0, 0). 18 in this glyph.
  2. Cell100 units, an eighth of the em: 2 px at 16, 15 px at 120, never a fraction.
  3. Advance600 units wide: 0 of space on the left, 100 on the right.
  4. Fifth columnM takes five cells, not three: a three-cell M is a guess.
Plate 6.1. Tick 35 M, 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 6.2 · SPACING · TICK 35PROPORTIONAL · NO KERNING
12
  1. Advance boxWidths run from 200 to 600 units across the face.
  2. Side bearingsH keeps 0 units of space on the left and 100 on the right. No kerning: the boxes do the spacing.
Plate 6.2. Tick 35 fitted by its advance boxes alone, drawn from the hmtx table.
03Waterfall

Every size it is drawn for

120 px · 15 px cellHP 28/30 · SEED 4127
72 px · 9 px cellHP 28/30 · SEED 4127
48 px · 6 px cellHP 28/30 · SEED 4127
32 px · 4 px cellSPHINX OF BLACK QUARTZ, JUDGE MY VOW.
16 px · 2 px cellSPHINX OF BLACK QUARTZ, JUDGE MY VOW.
04Character set

All 109 characters

Char
M
Code point
U+004D
Glyph
M
Advance
600
LSB · RSB
0 · 100
Contours · points
3 · 20

Uppercase · 26

Lowercase · types the capitals

Figures · 10

Punctuation and symbols · 47

05In use

Good at

Game HUD72 · 32 · 16 px

HP 28/30

STAGE REEF 07

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06Download

Get Tick 35

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.

Download .zip · 2 filesRegular · TTFRegular · WOFF2

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CSS · put the .woff2 next to your stylesheet
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tick 35";
  src: url("Tick35-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}

h1 { font-family: "Tick 35", sans-serif; font-size: 48px; /* 16 32 48 72 120 */ }