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Terminal Grotesque
Raphaël Bastide started Terminal Grotesque in 2010 out of a pixel font he was drawing for a game project, and Jérémy Landes later forked it to create the open version. Velvetyne calls it a cousin of the pixel fonts, enhanced just enough to feel organic while staying punk and technical.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Raphaël Bastide, with Jérémy Landes, published by Velvetyne under the OFL-1.1 Open Font License. You can use it, freely. Get the files.
Pairs well with
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
IBM Plex Mono — terminal heritage meets terminal aesthetics, one raw and one disciplined.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Work Sans — a smooth humanist sans that makes the pixel edges pop.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Source Serif 4 — a bookish counterweight for editorial layouts with punk headlines.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Terminal Grotesque over IBM Plex Mono. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.