Arcade Block Pixel

Arcade Block Pixel's lowercase x reaches 80% of the capital height, close to the 78.9% median for pixel fonts, taller than 6 of the 11 other pixel fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 20% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 6 of the 11 other pixel fonts. Arcade Block Pixel runs 18.1% wider than the median for pixel fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 97.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 106.8%). The o is close to a circle, 1.12 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.28 times the width of H. O stands exactly as tall as H and sits on the baseline, with no overshoot.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 20% of the cap height, the heaviest of all 6 pixel fonts. Ink covers 45.4% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), the darkest of all 12 pixel fonts. Strokes keep one thickness in every direction: the sides of o and O measure the same as their tops and bottoms. The letters are built on a square pixel grid.

Its 2,575 characters include 2,401 Korean Hangul and 105 Latin letters, plus 69 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 38.1% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 18.3% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 80 kerning pairs, more than 7 of the 11 other pixel fonts. The tightest of them is FJ, which closes up by 20.6% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Arcade Block Pixel will not line up exactly.

12 other library fonts share Arcade Block Pixel's underlying letter structure. Compared with Arcade Block Pixel, Grid Sans keeps the letters plain, without the pixel effect, sets 17% narrower and puts down 41% less ink. Arcade Inline cuts a thin line along each stroke, sets 8% wider and puts down 17% less ink. Bulwark Block keeps the letters plain, without the pixel effect and sets 14% wider.