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A 16px monospaced slab-serif pixel face whose 900 glyphs cover 93 languages across extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

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Metrics

Nominal size 16 px
Han ink box 7×7
Cap height 7
x-height 5
Max ink extents 11×12
Ascent / Descent 12 / 3
Font bounding box 12, 15, -1, -3
Spacing Proportional
Advance width distribution 2px×24 4px×78 5px×28 6px×196 7px×207 8px×268 9px×32 10px×38
Nominal box 16×16 Han ink (median) 7×7 Max ink 11×12

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 898 / 297,264 0.30%
BMP 890 / 62,089 1.43%
SMP 9 / 28,829 0.03%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 5 / 9,810 0.05%
Unihan Core 2020 5 / 20,720 0.02%
Windows Glyph List 4 524 / 650 80.62%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 96 / 96 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-B 78 / 208 37.50%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 97 / 97 100% ✓ Complete
Greek Everyday Characters 72 / 72 100% ✓ Complete
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 1 / 87 1.15%
Vietnamese Latin 186 / 186 100% ✓ Complete
IBM Code Page 437 167 / 255 65.49%
Box Drawing 0 / 128 0.00%
Block Elements 0 / 32 0.00%
Powerline Symbols 0 / 41 0.00%
Braille Patterns 0 / 256 0.00%

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 5 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 5 / 26,2810%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 2 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 4 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 3 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 3 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 2 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 2 / 11,151 0% Common 2 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 4 / 8,105 0% Level 1 4 / 3,500 Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 2 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 3 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 3 / 4,620 0.1%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han2 / 11,151 0% Common 2 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han4 / 8,105 0% Level 1 4 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 13 / 2,965 0.1%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han3 / 4,620 0.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han2 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 0 / 171 0% Other kana 0 / 408
Hangul syllables 0 / 11,172 0% KS X 1001 syllables 0 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451
Basic Bopomofo 0 / 37 0% Other Bopomofo 0 / 38
Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts.
Explore the counts & definitions

The selected CJK total combines the four Han tables, the JIS hiragana and katakana with ー・, Hangul syllables and basic Bopomofo, counting each code point once. Jamo, compatibility Han, other kana and other Bopomofo are listed separately.

“Simp Trad Shared” counts Unicode code points shared by the Simplified and Traditional Han reference sets. Shared code points can still have different regional glyph shapes, for example through OpenType locl; coverage does not imply identical glyphs.

Unicode 17. Counts use exact code points, with no variant-form or compatibility normalization. The Han map includes the 12 unified ideographs in the compatibility block; other compatibility ideographs are listed separately. “Only” means absent from the other three reference sets.

Taiwan: the 4,808 common and 6,343 less-common character tables. Mainland China: the 8,105 standard characters in three levels. Japan: the 2,965 JIS X 0208 Level 1 kanji. Korea: the unified Han subset of KS X 1001. The small lines under Taiwan and Mainland China show the common table (4,808) and Level 1 (3,500), which the Traditional and Simplified Chinese labels are judged on. The kana figure is the 83 hiragana and 86 katakana of JIS X 0208 plus ー and ・; rare, historical, extended and halfwidth kana are listed as other kana. Basic Bopomofo is the 37 letters U+3105–3129; dialect letters and the extended block are listed as other Bopomofo.

Shared & unique characters
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 2 / 4,8990%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 2 / 2,4950.1%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 2 / 1,9040.1%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 2 / 4,2940%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 2 / 2,7990.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 2 / 1,7710.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 2 / 2,7330.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 2 / 1,6980.1%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 4 / 14,3570%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 5 / 14,6940%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 5 / 14,6170%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 5 / 14,9010%
Traditional Han only 0 / 4,6380%
Simplified Han only 2 / 3,0280.1%
Japanese Kanji only 0 / 2840%
Korean Han only 0 / 2070%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 5 / 101,996 0.00%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 5 / 26,281 0.02%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 4 / 6,763 0.06%
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 4 / 3,755 0.11%
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 0 / 3,008 0.00%
GBK Hanzi 5 / 20,923 0.02%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 2 / 6,866 0.03%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 5 / 88,115 0.01%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 5 / 27,780 0.02%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 5 / 27,584 0.02%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 4 / 8,105 0.05%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 4 / 3,500 0.11%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 0 / 3,000 0.00%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 0 / 1,605 0.00%
List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese 4 / 3,500 0.11%
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 4 / 2,500 0.16%
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 0 / 1,000 0.00%
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 4 / 7,000 0.06%
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 4 / 3,500 0.11%
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 2 / 14,250 0.01%
Kangxi Radicals 0 / 214 0.00%
CJK Radicals Supplement 0 / 115 0.00%
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 4 / 9,169 0.04%
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 4 / 9,664 0.04%

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 2 / 11,151 0.02%
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 2 / 4,808 0.04%
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 0 / 6,343 0.00%
Big5 All Hanzi 2 / 13,053 0.02%
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 2 / 5,401 0.04%
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 0 / 7,652 0.00%
Basic Bopomofo 0 / 37 0.00%
Other Bopomofo 0 / 38 0.00%

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 2 / 4,762 0.04%
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 3 / 4,603 0.07%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 1 / 1,102 0.09%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 147 / 524 28.05%
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 3 / 2,965 0.10%
JIS X 0208 Level 2 Kanji 0 / 3,390 0.00%
JIS X 0213 Level 3 Kanji 0 / 1,260 0.00%
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 0 / 2,397 0.00%
Joyo Kanji 3 / 2,136 0.14%
Kyoiku Kanji 3 / 1,026 0.29%
Jinmeiyo Kanji 0 / 864 0.00%
Hiragana & Katakana (JIS X 0208, with ー・) 0 / 171 0.00%
Hiragana 0 / 83 0.00%
Katakana 0 / 86 0.00%
Other kana 0 / 408 0.00%
Other Hiragana and Katakana block characters 0 / 18 0.00%
Kana extensions 0 / 327 0.00%
Halfwidth Katakana 0 / 63 0.00%
JIS X 0201 95 / 158 60.13%

Korean

Hangul Syllables (All Modern) 0 / 11,172 0.00%
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 0 / 2,350 0.00%
KS X 1001 Han (total) 3 / 4,888 0.06%
KS X 1001 unified Han 3 / 4,620 0.06%
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 0 / 268 0.00%
KS X 1001 Symbols 191 / 987 19.35%
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451 0.00%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 0 / 94 0.00%
Hangul Jamo · base block 0 / 256 0.00%
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 0 / 101 0.00%
Unicode blocks(30)
Basic Latin 97 / 128 75.78%
Latin-1 Supplement 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100%
Latin Extended-B 78 / 208 37.50%
IPA Extensions 15 / 96 15.63%
Spacing Modifier Letters 7 / 80 8.75%
Greek and Coptic 95 / 134 70.90%
Cyrillic 134 / 256 52.34%
Bengali 1 / 94 1.06%
Thai 1 / 87 1.15%
Khmer 1 / 114 0.88%
Latin Extended Additional 139 / 256 54.30%
Greek Extended 6 / 230 2.61%
General Punctuation 26 / 111 23.42%
Currency Symbols 20 / 34 58.82%
Letterlike Symbols 5 / 80 6.25%
Mathematical Operators 6 / 256 2.34%
Miscellaneous Technical 1 / 256 0.39%
Geometric Shapes 8 / 96 8.33%
Miscellaneous Symbols 12 / 256 4.69%
Supplemental Punctuation 3 / 94 3.19%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 2 / 64 3.13%
CJK Unified Ideographs 5 / 20,992 0.02%
Cyrillic Extended-B 1 / 96 1.04%
Latin Extended-D 2 / 204 0.98%
Specials 1 / 5 20.00%
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 1 / 993 0.10%
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 5 / 768 0.65%
Transport and Map Symbols 1 / 119 0.84%
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs 2 / 256 0.78%

Glyph overview

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Downloads

Cairopixel-16px BDF 12.4 KB PCF 16.6 KB
Full family BDF ZIP cairopixel.zip 15.4 KB
Bitmap TTF cairopixel.ttf 24.1 KB
Vector TTF (square) cairopixel-16px-square.ttf 81.8 KB
Vector TTF (round) cairopixel-16px-round.ttf 134.9 KB
Web font (square) cairopixel-16px-square.woff2 16.2 KB
Web font (round) cairopixel-16px-round.woff2 10.9 KB

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