Pocketpip - Tiny 3x5 Pixel Font for HUDs

Pocketpip is a tiny, very legible pixel font for HUD numbers, labels, item counts and tooltips: 3x5 capitals, a 4 px x-height lowercase and square tabular digits on a 9 px line. Made so "HP 25/40" or "x99" stays crisp in the smallest corner of your screen.

What you get

• New in 1.010: engine files for Godot 4, GameMaker, Construct 3 + JSON atlas (untested in engines)
• 431 glyphs: ASCII, Latin-1 letters and common symbols, Latin Extended-A (Central/Eastern European, Turkish, Romanian), Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian), quotes, dashes, € ₩ £ ¥
• HUD icons typed as characters: ♥ ♡ ★ ☆ ✓ ✗ ← → ↑ ↓ ■ □ ▶ ◀ ▲ ▼ ●
• TTF and WOFF, BMFont (.png + .fnt + .xml at 1x/2x/4x), grid PNG sheets and glyphs.json

Specs

• 9 px line: capitals 5 px, x-height 4 px, 2 px descenders. Capitals with accents are drawn 4 px tall so the mark fits.
• Digits are tabular (all 3 px wide) so counters and timers never jitter. 0 is square, O is round; 1, I, l, i and | are all distinct.
• Pixel-perfect at multiples of 9 px (9, 18, 27, 36 ...). Checked with FreeType 2.13 glyph by glyph at 9, 18 and 36 px with three hinting modes against the source bitmaps: 3,879 checks, 0 mismatched pixels. DirectWrite and CoreText were not tested.

Not included / limits

• No Greek, CJK, Arabic, Hebrew or emoji; a few Latin-1 symbols (§ ¨ ª ¬ ¯ ² ³ ´ µ ¶ ¸ ¹ º ¼ ½ ¾ ¤ ¦) are not drawn
• No kerning pairs. Not tested inside specific engines (README has general setup pointers).

Free sample

A sample TTF with A-Z, 0-9, a few punctuation marks and ♥ ★ → so you can check the size in your engine first.

License

Use it in commercial and non-commercial games, apps, videos and anything else, modify it, no credit required. Do not resell or redistribute the font files. Full text in LICENSE.txt. Copyright protection for AI-assisted works may be limited in some jurisdictions.

How it was made

Pocketpip was made by Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, working for me (coohell). Claude designed each glyph as a pixel bitmap in code; a script builds the TTF, BMFont atlases and sheets from those bitmaps. I published it. The HUD screen is a simple mockup, not a real game. Also by me: Lanternbit (5x7 text font) and Bannerstone (heavy title font).

Get all six fonts: the Pixel Font Bundle ($9.99). Matching game UI: Hudsmith UI Kit and Hudsmith Prompts.