Fonts drawn for LED matrix clocks, on 6-row and 8-row bodies in a Chunky and a Light weight, plus extended and 8x6 cuts, ten in all. Most characters are three pixels wide with one empty column on the right.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
MatrixLight6X 6 px No Han glyphs 7×6
MatrixChunky6 6 px No Han glyphs 7×6
MatrixChunky6X 6 px No Han glyphs 7×6
MatrixLight6 6 px No Han glyphs 7×6
MatrixLight8 8 px 7×8 10×8
MatrixLight8X 8 px 7×8 10×8
MatrixLight8x6 8 px No Han glyphs 6×8
MatrixChunky8 8 px 7×8 10×8
MatrixChunky8X 8 px 7×8 10×8
MatrixChunky8x6 8 px No Han glyphs 6×8
Presets
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Metrics

Nominal size 8 px
Han ink box 7×8
Cap height 7
x-height 5
Max ink extents 10×8
Ascent / Descent 8 / 0
Font bounding box 10, 8, 0, 0
Spacing Proportional
Advance width distribution 1px×3 2px×28 3px×22 4px×396 5px×143 6px×96 7px×14 8px×24
Nominal box 8×8 Han ink (median) 7×8 Max ink 10×8

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 730 / 297,264 0.25%
BMP 731 / 62,089 1.18%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 20 / 9,810 0.20%
Unihan Core 2020 20 / 20,720 0.10%
Windows Glyph List 4 469 / 650 72.15%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 95 / 96 98.96%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-B 4 / 208 1.92%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 76 / 97 78.35%
Greek Everyday Characters 67 / 72 93.06%
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 0 / 87 0.00%
Vietnamese Latin 186 / 186 100% ✓ Complete
IBM Code Page 437 162 / 255 63.53%
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 20 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 32 / 26,2810.1%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 20 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 20 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 20 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 20 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 20 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 20 / 11,151 0.2% Common 20 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 20 / 8,105 0.2% Level 1 20 / 3,500 Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 20 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 20 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 20 / 4,620 0.4%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han20 / 11,151 0.2% Common 20 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han20 / 8,105 0.2% Level 1 20 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 120 / 2,965 0.7%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han20 / 4,620 0.4%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han20 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 0 / 171 0% Other kana 0 / 408
Hangul syllables 12 / 11,172 0.1% KS X 1001 syllables 12 / 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
Shared & unique charactersCovered / total
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 20 / 4,8990.4%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 20 / 2,4950.8%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 20 / 1,9041.1%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 20 / 4,2940.5%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 20 / 2,7990.7%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 20 / 1,7711.1%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 20 / 2,7330.7%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 20 / 1,6981.2%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 20 / 14,3570.1%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 20 / 14,6940.1%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 20 / 14,6170.1%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 20 / 14,9010.1%
Traditional Han only 0 / 4,6380%
Simplified Han only 0 / 3,0280%
Japanese Kanji only 0 / 2840%
Korean Han only 0 / 2070%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 20 / 101,996 0.02%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 32 / 26,281 0.12%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 20 / 6,763 0.30%
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 20 / 3,755 0.53%
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 0 / 3,008 0.00%
GBK Hanzi 20 / 20,923 0.10%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 20 / 6,866 0.29%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 20 / 88,115 0.02%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 20 / 27,780 0.07%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 20 / 27,584 0.07%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 20 / 8,105 0.25%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 20 / 3,500 0.57%
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 20 / 3,500 0.57%
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 20 / 2,500 0.80%
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 0 / 1,000 0.00%
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 20 / 7,000 0.29%
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 20 / 3,500 0.57%
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 20 / 14,250 0.14%
Kangxi Radicals 0 / 214 0.00%
CJK Radicals Supplement 0 / 115 0.00%
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 20 / 9,169 0.22%
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 21 / 9,664 0.22%

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 20 / 11,151 0.18%
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 20 / 4,808 0.42%
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 0 / 6,343 0.00%
Big5 All Hanzi 20 / 13,053 0.15%
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 20 / 5,401 0.37%
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 20 / 4,762 0.42%
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 1 / 4,603 0.02%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 1 / 1,102 0.09%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 131 / 524 25.00%
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 20 / 2,965 0.67%
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 20 / 2,136 0.94%
Kyoiku Kanji 19 / 1,026 1.85%
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) 12 / 11,172 0.11%
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 12 / 2,350 0.51%
KS X 1001 Han (total) 20 / 4,888 0.41%
KS X 1001 unified Han 20 / 4,620 0.43%
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 0 / 268 0.00%
KS X 1001 Symbols 180 / 987 18.24%
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(18)
Basic Latin 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin-1 Supplement 95 / 128 74.22%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100%
Latin Extended-B 4 / 208 1.92%
IPA Extensions 96 / 96 100%
Greek and Coptic 67 / 134 50.00%
Cyrillic 76 / 256 29.69%
Latin Extended Additional 91 / 256 35.55%
General Punctuation 8 / 111 7.21%
Currency Symbols 21 / 34 61.76%
Letterlike Symbols 2 / 80 2.50%
Enclosed Alphanumerics 11 / 160 6.88%
Geometric Shapes 1 / 96 1.04%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 1 / 64 1.56%
CJK Unified Ideographs 20 / 20,992 0.10%
Hangul Syllables 12 / 11,172 0.11%
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 1 / 225 0.44%
Specials 1 / 5 20.00%

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Downloads

MatrixLight6X BDF 5.4 KB PCF 7.7 KB
MatrixChunky6 BDF 5.4 KB PCF 7.6 KB
MatrixChunky6X BDF 5.4 KB PCF 7.6 KB
MatrixLight6 BDF 5.4 KB PCF 7.7 KB
MatrixLight8 BDF 9.1 KB PCF 12.7 KB
MatrixLight8X BDF 9.1 KB PCF 12.7 KB
MatrixLight8x6 BDF 5.9 KB PCF 7.7 KB
MatrixChunky8 BDF 9.1 KB PCF 12.6 KB
MatrixChunky8X BDF 9.1 KB PCF 12.6 KB
MatrixChunky8x6 BDF 5.8 KB PCF 7.6 KB
Full family BDF ZIP matrix.zip 75.6 KB
Bitmap TTF matrix-light.ttf 43.4 KB
Bitmap TTF matrix-regular.ttf 57.8 KB
Vector TTF (square) matrix-light-8px-square.ttf 32.5 KB
Vector TTF (round) matrix-light-8px-round.ttf 55.1 KB
Vector TTF (square) matrix-regular-8px-square.ttf 28.3 KB
Vector TTF (round) matrix-regular-8px-round.ttf 60.9 KB
Web font (square) matrix-light-8px-square.woff2 7.0 KB
Web font (round) matrix-light-8px-round.woff2 4.2 KB
Web font (square) matrix-regular-8px-square.woff2 6.5 KB
Web font (round) matrix-regular-8px-round.woff2 4.1 KB

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