Bookxel Pixel Font
A downloadable asset pack
A neutral and legible pixel font, even at small scales. It was developed and iterated upon for a couple released & unreleased games and graphical editors. You can see how Bookxel was used in small games such as Switched, Squash, Mcdonald's Farm, Slightly Unconventional Platformer.
Bookxel uses consistent letter padding, to keep characters close by, without them blurring together. There are 5 strong character lines throughout the characters, the baseline, x-height, capital height, ascender & descender lines. This makes the reading flow as smooth as the lines. Open Apertures are especially tricky in a low resolution, but come out clearly with minimal compromise to the character lines. This design makes the pixel-font versatile and useful in pixel-themed editors or pixel art games who need a reliable font for accessibility.
It comes in the widely compatible TTF format. Licensed under the Open Font License. It contains the default English character set.
As reward for supporting development you can get a co-developed icon pack. They are pixel-perfect, 16 by 16 pixels and aptly named for common functions or objects. They complement the font and can be used beside it. The pack contains 134 icons. The files are optimised for size, with the spritesheet coming in under 2.6 KiB.
For Godot engine developers there are font presets available to keep the font clear.
For Playdate developers there are FNT formats of Bookxel available, both normal and bold, which were provided by https://splodd.itch.io/
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Development log
- Bookxel on Playdate now!Mar 01, 2025
- Bookxel Capital UpgradeNov 27, 2024






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I really love this font. Thank you for all your work on it! I’ve used https://play.date/caps/ to recreate your work as a .fnt for use in my playdate game development. I’d love to send you the file so you can host it here for others to use too!
Hey Adam,
This is great to hear! I would love to add bookxel.fnt. The Playdate seems like a surprisingly fitting platform for Booxkel. You can try messaging me on Bluesky(https://bsky.app/profile/bokuh.bsky.social), beware I don't use it much yet. Or if you have a better suggestion is fine too.
I popped you a message :)
Thanks!