DotMatrix Font Family

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About

DotMatrix is a font inspired by the dot matrix printers of the 1980s, capturing the essence of the printing technologies from that era. It's perfect for evoking a retro or nostalgic feel, rendering ASCII/ANSI art, or use within code editors. For true scale, use 10 point text.

Features

Character Set: Includes 537 characters featuring the full set from the Epson FX-80 printer, DOS code page 437, Google Fonts Latin Core, Greek Core, Cyrillic Core, and Hebrew. Note, the italic subset is limited to 191 characters due to historical constraints.

Dot Jitter: Simulates the inaccuracy of the printing head for an authentic look.

Epson FX-80 Modes: Mapped to different DotMatrix font families:

  • Epson FX-80 ModeDotMatrix Font Family
    • "Double-strike" is represented by the Bold style.
    • "Italic" corresponds to the Italic style.
    • "Proportional mode" is mapped to the respective Var font families.

Variable Font Axes:

  • Element Size: Adjusts the dot strength.
  • Horizontal Element Spacing: Modifies the font width.

License

  • Free for personal use
  • Free for commercial use
DotMatrix is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)

Languages

DotMatrix covers 59 languages:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Indonesian
  • German
  • Javanese
  • Turkish
  • Filipino
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Malay
  • Uzbek
  • Dutch
  • Ukrainian
  • Romanian
  • Somali
  • Serbian
  • Kazakh
  • Swedish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Greek
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Tajik
  • Belarusian
  • Hebrew
  • Catalan
  • Bulgarian
  • Bosnian (Latin)
  • Bosnian (Cyrllic)
  • Kurdish (Latin)
  • Danish
  • Turkmen
  • Slovak
  • Albanian
  • Croatian
  • Mongolian
  • Finnish
  • Norwegian
  • Kyrgyz
  • Galician
  • Lithuanian
  • Occitan
  • Tatar
  • Slovenian
  • Nynorsk
  • Irish
  • Latvian
  • Basque
  • Welsh
  • Estonian
  • Breton
  • Maltese
  • Luxembourgish
  • Icelandic
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Faroese

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