Boing Boing

Boing Boing

Share this post

Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Two Slice is a surprisingly readable 2-pixel high font

Two Slice is a surprisingly readable 2-pixel high font

Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
Aug 28, 2025
∙ Paid
3

Share this post

Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Two Slice is a surprisingly readable 2-pixel high font
1
Share

There's the 1-px side subpixel font named Millitext and a 3px-wide subpixel font that passes as type, but sticking with full pixels makes legibility tough at tiny sizes. Jason Kottke's Silkscreen is exemplary at 4×5. Making a gruesome 3×3 font is a kind of ritual for pixel artists. Nanofont is 3×4 with a 2-pixel tall lowercase, but today I find myself s…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Boing Boing to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Happy Mutants LLC
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share