TYPIKON

Monospace pixel font. 10×18 grid. Byzantine letterforms for terminals and protocol interfaces.

About

Typikon is a monospace pixel font built at the intersection of Byzantine manuscript tradition and cypherpunk aesthetics. The letterforms borrow from the angular serifs and faceted bowls of chancery hands, compressed into a tall, narrow 10:18 aspect ratio that echoes the elongated proportions of mosaic tesserae and icon panels. Every glyph sits on a strict 10×18 pixel grid — no subpixel hinting, no interpolation, no smoothing.

Two weights are included: Regular (2px stroke) and Light (1px stroke).

The font is designed for the protocol layer: terminals, code editors, log output, and cryptographic interfaces. Its specimen text weaves Byzantine liturgical metaphor with the primitives of trustless systems — commit-reveal schemes, zero-knowledge proofs, Sybil resistance. The terminal as digital narthex; the hash as gold leaf.

Details

• 191 glyphs — uppercase, lowercase, digits, punctuation, Latin Extended (128–255)
• Weights: Regular (2px stroke), Light (1px stroke)
• Formats: TTF, WOFF2
• Disambiguation pairs for terminal legibility: 0/O, 1/l/I, S/5, 8/B

Installation

npm

npm install @pepemon42069/typikon

Import in your JS/TS entry point:

import '@pepemon42069/typikon';

Then use it in CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Typikon', monospace;
}

/* Light weight */
.light {
  font-family: 'Typikon', monospace;
  font-weight: 300;
}

Works with Vite, webpack, and other bundlers.

Manual

cp typikon.ttf typikon-light.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -f

Web (self-hosted)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Typikon';
  src: url('typikon.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('typikon.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: 400;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Typikon';
  src: url('typikon-light.woff2') format('woff2'),
       url('typikon-light.ttf') format('truetype');
  font-weight: 300;
}

Platform

Built and tested on Linux only.

License

SIL Open Font License v1.1