22 Best Pixel Fonts to Level Up Your Designs (2024)

Looking to level up your designs with a cool pixel font? Whether you’re creating a gaming-themed poster, or you want to give your designs an 80s retro feel, pixel fonts can be a great choice. 

However, finding the perfect pixel font can be a struggle. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at 22 of the best pixel fonts available for every type of design. 

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1. Game Over – Our Top Pick

Game Over is a modern pixel-style font that’s best suited to game graphics and titles, but could also work well in plenty of other designs. It comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF file formats and includes all the usual glyphs plus special characters and alternates, which are only accessible on programs that support OpenType features (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)

Why it’s our top pick

This is one of the most popular pixel-style fonts on Envato Elements, and it’s clear why. It’s a classic pixel typeface with letterforms that also look as if they’re built from blocks. 

It pays homage to the kind of vintage, low-res bitmap fonts you’d see on classic arcade games, but unlike these old-school typefaces, Game Over has a modern twist that makes it more suited to more modern designs. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

2. Pixel Bit

Pixel Bit is a unique, futuristic display font with an interesting design. The letters are blocky with straight edges and square corners, but it’s the alternates that give this typeface its character. 

You can use the alternates to add cool ‘digital dot pixels’ on any side of each letter: the top, bottom, right, or left. Once you add the digital dot pixels, it makes it look as if the letters are crumbling away into cyberspace and breaking down into their component pixels. Also, it’s a really cool effect that would work well on sci-fi movie posters and futuristic games.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

3. Mainport Pixelate

Mainport is a display font that takes inspiration from the pixelated RPGs of old. It’s extremely nostalgic and reminiscent of old-school 2D RPG games. The letterforms look as if they’ve been crafted with the bare minimum number of pixels. The download includes OTF and TTF files, glyphs, and also uppercase & lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

4. Pixel Craft

Pixel Craft is a cute, quirky pixel font with playful letterforms and intentionally messy strokes. It’s laid back and relaxed and is perfect for kids’ game designs, posters, and also digital product designs.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

5. Pixel 1 Color Font

Pixel 1 is a Color SVG font. It looks as if the designer has built it out of 3D pixel blocks. For the uninitiated, Color or SVG OpenType fonts are a new type of font technology that allows designers to incorporate extra details like colors, gradients, and textures into the file. As a result, they’re able to create elaborate, highly-detailed fonts with cool 3D effects just like this one.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

6. Pixels Gone Bad

Pixels Gone Bad is a chaotic decorative font that’s perfect for posters, titles, and other large displays. The designer has made it look as if the glyphs are constructed from dozens of individual pixel blocks that are going haywire. It’s a typeface that’s disorderly, orderless, and also full of energy.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

7. Bit Game Retro Pixel Font 

Bit Game is another retro typeface that emulates old-school pixel fonts. The quirky pixelated characters will perfectly fit for all your gaming-related designs. They could also work well on book covers, brand logos, posters, etc.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

8. Hackbot Pixel Font

Hackbot is a retro-futuristic pixelated font that simultaneously looks like it belongs in both the future and the past. The gaps between blocks in the letterforms make them seem as if somebody has built them from individual pixels, but unlike real bitmap fonts, it’s fully scalable and looks great in any resolution. Use it in your game promotional designs, retro artwork, posters, and more.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

9. Tickerbit Retro Font

Tickerbit is another quirky modern pixel font by designer That That. It comes in four styles: Regular, Italic, Mono, and Mono Italic. The design is simple but interesting and eye-catching. It’s well-suited to use in graphic novels, game graphics, and retro designs.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

10. Ugly Byte

Ugly Byte is an all-caps pixel font that’s perfect for mobile apps and games. As the name suggests, it’s not the most traditionally aesthetically pleasing font, but it’s full of character. Aside from uppercase letters, it also includes numbers, symbols, punctuation, ligatures, and multilingual characters.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

11. Thug Life Font

Thug Life is a crafty display font with a distinctive design. The bold, blocky letters are designed to imitate pixel art. Each line in the letterforms looks as if pixels have been cut out of it at random, which gives this font an edgy look that makes it perfect for cool, trendy designs. True to its name, it’s reminiscent of the iconic pixelated sunglasses that appear in the ‘Thug Life’ meme.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

12. Micro Pixelate Font

Micro is a modern pixelated font that was designed specifically for NFT artwork and game designs. It’s a heavy, bold font that packs a punch and is guaranteed to make an impact. Aside from NFTs and games, it’d also work well as an attention-grabbing headline/title font.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

13. Tiny Timmy

Tiny Timmy is another retro-inspired pixel font with a minimalist, laid-back style. The design is clean, simple, and highly readable, which makes it perfect for in-game text. It’d work well as both a title and body font.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

14. Billy Pixel Font

Billy is another laidback, old-school pixel font. It’s a little weightier than the last retro pixelated font we looked at and has more of an impact. It comes in three different weights and includes both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

15. Bitbybit Font

Bitbybit is a retro-themed pixel sans serif typeface that comes in two styles: regular and bold. The designer took inspiration from retro gaming culture. In particular, from JRPGs and side-scrollers like Metroidvania. The download pack includes the font, plus icons and templates for flyers, Instagram posts, Instagram stories, and logo/badges.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

16. Broken Console

Broken Console is a geometric, all-caps pixel font that pays homage to old-school game consoles while remaining suitable for modern graphic design projects. It has a distinctive aesthetic with unique letterforms that would work well in techno, digital, cyberpunk, and gaming-themed artwork. It comes in three styles: Regular, Bold, and Shadow.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

17. Space Armada

Space Armada is a layered sci-fi font system that you can use to create highly-elaborate typography. It’s one of the most interesting fonts on this list, with a very sci-fi-esque futuristic design. The designer took inspiration from the sci-fi movies and game consoles of the 1980s.

It includes nine different unique font styles, which you can layer on top of each other to create unique effects.

For example, you can place the regular font version on top of the bold version to create a base outline, then add a gradient to create a metallic effect. Then, you could add the outlines as another layer to create an embossed effect. And finally, finish it up with the wireframe style for the finishing touch.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

18. Alpharush Gaming Typeface

Alpharush is a retro bitmap font by designer epdesigns. The designer took inspiration from the 8bit games of the 80s so the font is perfect for all your retro pixel art projects. Use it in esports logos, gaming graphics and posters, and more.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

19. Higher Wevil

Higher Wevil is a distinctive Halloween-themed font. It combines pixel art with spooky themes and is great for horror games. It’s best used in large display sizes as it’s highly decorative and jam-packed with visual detail. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

20. MonoPixel Awesome

MonoPixel Awesome is a fun, colorful, OpenType pixel font. It’s a very simple sans serif typeface with monospaced characters, so you can use it for programming or in your graphic design projects. But what makes it interesting is its rainbow-themed color pallette. Each individual pixel is a different color, so it’ll really brighten up your work. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

21. Mistry Box

Mistry is a huge, chunky, bold display font. The characters are really thick and heavy, which makes them impossible to ignore. It’s perfect for titles, logos, and apparel designs. The font pack includes A-Z and a-z letters, numbers, punctuations, ligatures, and alternates.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

22. Custle Guard

Last but not least, we have Custle Guard. This is another cool retro pixel font that’s ideal for 8bit games and pixel art. We really like the futuristic design and stylish, chunky letterforms.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription from $14.50/month. Suitable for personal & commercial use.

Tips for Choosing the Right Pixel Font

That concludes our roundup of the 22 best pixel fronts. Before we wrap up, here are some tips to help you choose the right pixel font for your project.

Consider your audience 

As you can see from the list above, pixel fonts come in many different shapes and sizes. When choosing the right one for your design, you should consider who your design is aimed towards. 

For example, if you’re creating a pixel-themed design for a kid’s party, consider choosing a bulkier pixel font that is easy for kids to read and eye-catching, such as Game Over. Alternatively, if your design is aimed at an older audience and you want to create a retro feel, it’s a good idea to choose a more classic pixel font, such as Broken Console 

Prioritize readability

Pixel fonts are super cool, but they can sometimes be hard to read. No matter what you’re using your pixel font for, you want to make sure that people can read it easily. So be sure to choose a font that is highly legible in spite of the pixelated design. 

Use Pixel fonts for posters and headers

Pixel fonts are impactful, retro, and also very cool. However, they work much better on posters and header texts than they do as part of larger bodies of text. If you’re thinking of using a pixel font in your designs, consider using them as your header texts and pair them with a more readable and basic font for larger blocks of text.