Pixel Dash Abto 3 is a regular weight, normal width, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, logotypes, album art, tech branding, glitchy, digital, retro-tech, industrial, kinetic, scanline effect, tech styling, display impact, textural branding, striped, stencil-like, segmented, modular, geometric.
A geometric sans with sturdy, mostly monolinear construction that’s interrupted by repeated horizontal dash breaks across each glyph. The interruptions create a consistent striped texture while keeping letter skeletons intact, producing crisp counters and clear silhouettes. Curves are smooth but periodically “scanned” by the dash pattern, and diagonals maintain a firm, engineered rhythm. Numerals follow the same segmented logic, with wide, stable forms and even spacing that reads as deliberately mechanized rather than distressed.
Best suited for display settings where the scanline texture can be appreciated—posters, titles, branding marks, event graphics, and digital creatives. It can add immediate tech flavor to packaging or editorial openers, and works especially well when paired with a quieter body text face.
The repeating dash cuts evoke scanlines, signal interference, and early digital display artifacts, giving the face a distinctly electronic, glitch-adjacent mood. It feels technical and energetic, with a retro-futuristic tone that suggests instrumentation, broadcast graphics, or synthesized motion.
The design appears intended to merge a clean geometric sans foundation with a systematic dash/scanline disruption, creating a recognizable texture without sacrificing legibility. The consistent segmentation suggests a deliberate “signal” aesthetic aimed at contemporary tech visuals and retro digital references.
The striped modulation is applied uniformly across capitals, lowercase, and figures, creating a strong all-caps impact while still preserving lowercase distinction. At smaller sizes or on low-resolution output, the dash gaps may visually merge into gray bands, so contrast and size choices will strongly affect perceived sharpness.