Pixel Bery 9 is a bold, narrow, low contrast, italic, tall x-height font.
Keywords: game ui, posters, headlines, logos, stickers, retro, arcade, tech, gritty, energetic, retro computing, speed, display impact, digital texture, rounded corners, stencil-like, inline breaks, chunky, quirky.
This typeface uses chunky, quantized letterforms with rounded pixel corners and a pronounced rightward slant. Strokes are heavy and mostly monolinear, with frequent small cut-ins and notch-like interruptions that create a stencil/segmented feel across many glyphs. Counters are compact and often squared-off, and the overall rhythm is tight and upright in structure despite the italic motion. Numerals and caps are sturdy and compact, and the lowercase keeps a high x-height with simplified, angular bowls and terminals.
Well-suited for game titles and UI labels, retro-tech posters, esports or racing-themed headlines, and compact branding marks where a fast, digital flavor is desired. It also works for short product names or callouts on packaging that benefits from a rugged, arcade-like texture.
The overall tone feels retro-digital and arcade-adjacent, mixing a playful, game-UI attitude with a slightly rough, industrial edge from the segmented details. The slant adds speed and urgency, giving the face an energetic, action-oriented character.
The design appears intended to evoke classic bitmap/pixel lettering while adding motion through an italic stance and character through deliberate stencil-like breaks. It aims for high impact and a distinctive on-screen or display presence rather than quiet, long-form readability.
The segmented cuts and pixel rounding become more noticeable as text blocks grow, producing a textured, almost "glitched" color on the page. The design’s strong silhouette favors short bursts of text and high-contrast settings where the blocky shapes and slanted stance can read cleanly.