Pixel Dash Efry 6 is a regular weight, wide, medium contrast, upright, tall x-height, monospaced font.
Keywords: game ui, posters, headlines, logos, album art, retro, techy, noisy, industrial, arcade, retro computing, digital texture, display impact, ui styling, blocky, stencil-like, segmented, quantized, rugged.
A blocky, quantized design built from stacked horizontal dashes that create a segmented outline and a visibly “glitchy” texture through the strokes. Letterforms sit on a consistent grid with square corners, straight-sided curves, and open counters that read as pixel-rounded rectangles rather than smooth bowls. The interior dash pattern is repeated across glyphs, producing an even rhythm and a strong modular feel in both caps and lowercase, while numerals and punctuation keep the same segmented construction.
Works best in display settings where the segmented dash texture can be appreciated—game UI, arcade-inspired graphics, tech-themed posters, album covers, and punchy logotypes. It can also serve as a distinctive accent in interfaces or packaging when used sparingly and given enough size and spacing to keep the pattern legible.
The overall tone feels retro-digital and mechanically patterned, evoking early computer displays, arcade interfaces, and lo-fi tech graphics. Its broken-bar texture adds a gritty, noisy energy that reads as utilitarian and slightly rebellious rather than polished.
The design appears intended to blend sturdy, grid-based letter construction with a decorative broken-bar texture, delivering a pixel-era look with added visual noise. It prioritizes impact and stylistic character over neutral text readability, especially at smaller sizes.
Because the strokes are formed from small separated bars, the texture becomes a prominent visual feature; at smaller sizes it can collapse into a busy mass, while at larger sizes it becomes an intentional pattern. Diagonal forms (like in K, X, and Z) are stepped and grid-driven, reinforcing the engineered, modular character.