Pixel Oblo 7 is a bold, normal width, monoline, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: game ui, posters, titles, logos, album art, retro, arcade, gritty, playful, industrial, retro feel, high impact, digital texture, display voice, game aesthetic, blocky, angular, chiseled, stenciled, jagged.
A blocky, quantized display face built from chunky, squared forms with crisp right angles and occasional diagonal cuts. Strokes are consistently heavy, with stepped corners and small notch-like cutouts that create a rugged, pixel-carved silhouette. Counters tend to be boxy and compact, and many letters use squared terminals and slab-like feet, producing a dense texture with uneven, characterful widths across the alphabet. Numerals follow the same modular construction, keeping the overall rhythm tight and emphatic.
Works best for headlines, game menus, scoreboard-style graphics, and short callouts where its chunky pixel geometry can read clearly. It’s well suited to posters, album/cover art, event branding, and logo marks that aim for a retro-tech or arcade-inspired aesthetic, especially when paired with simple layouts and high-contrast color.
The overall tone feels retro-digital and arcade-adjacent, with a gritty, hand-hacked edge that reads as game UI, underground flyers, or lo-fi techno culture. Its angular breaks and notches add attitude and motion, making the text feel energetic and slightly aggressive without becoming illegible at display sizes.
The design appears intended to evoke classic bitmap lettering while adding a custom, chiseled texture through notches and stepped diagonals. It prioritizes impact and character over neutrality, aiming for a distinctive display voice that still functions across uppercase, lowercase, and numerals.
In running text the face maintains strong word shapes, but the heavy pixel steps and tight internal spaces make it best when given generous size and breathing room. The distinctive notches and asymmetries help differentiate similar letters, while also giving the type a deliberately rough, crafted-by-grid personality.