TYPE SPECIMEN NO. 001PIXEL MONOSPACE / TWO CUTS / OPEN SOURCEEST. 2026

CRT–01 / PERSISTENCE TESTUPTIME: 1984:09:17:03

PHOSPHORWAKE

Square bones. A steady signal. A little of every character stays behind.

A terminal that never slept.

An original pixel monospace with a very long memory.

Download the font kit

01 cellEvery character

02 cutsRegular + Burn

ExtendedCharacter coverage

TTF + WOFF2Desktop & web

01 / Feed the terminal

Make an impression.

Type something worth burning in. Turn up the phosphor, change the tube, or switch off the halo to inspect the letterforms.

Scanlines Coding ligatures

Choose Display to inspect large type, then Raw pixels to switch off glow and scanlines. Scroll within the specimen for long lines. Burn’s continuous pixel contours are built into the font; light and scanlines are rendering effects.

0O 1lI

Strange. Never ambiguous.

A marked zero, a grounded one, and a lowercase that holds its own. Built to read through the static.

Aa&@

A signal that holds together.

Clean pixel steps, open counters, and a fuller Burn silhouette. The same fixed-width skeleton, from a line of code to a title screen.

|> → ≠

From pipes to pointers.

Real coding punctuation, arrows, mathematical symbols, and terminal drawing characters. Explore the full set below.

02 / Native language

Old soul.
New syntax.

For tomorrow’s software on yesterday’s imagined hardware. Equal cells keep the whole transmission in line.

afterimage.jsREGULAR / UTF–8

// The signal is still out there.
const wake = ({ signal, decay = 0.98 }) => {
  return signal
    .filter(pixel => pixel.energy !== 0)
    .map(pixel => ({
      ...pixel,
      energy: pixel.energy * decay
    }));
};

console.log("STILL HERE_", wake(frame));

03 / Signal inventory

Every mark matters.

Letters, operators, arrows, and the pieces of a lost interface. Select a glyph to inspect its code point and copy it.

Loading the font’s character manifest…

04 / Take the signal with you

KEEP THE
LIGHT ON.

Install it in your editor. Put it in your game. Build something that looks like it was found on an abandoned orbital station.

Download everything

Free for personal & commercial use. Includes fonts, web styles, editable source, and license.

Phosphor Wake — RegularINSTALLABLE TTF / CLEAN PIXEL CUT

Phosphor Wake — BurnINSTALLABLE TTF / FULLER PHOSPHOR CUT

Regular webfontWOFF2 / SELF-HOST ON YOUR SITE

Burn webfontWOFF2 / SELF-HOST ON YOUR SITE

The phosphor recipeCSS / WEBFONTS + SOFT CRT HALO

01 / Install on your computer

Download either v1.1 TTF. Replace your previous Phosphor Wake fonts if already installed. On macOS, open it in Font Book and choose Install. On Windows, right-click and choose Install. On Linux, place it in ~/.local/share/fonts/ and refresh your font cache.

02 / Choose it in your editor

Select Phosphor Wake or Phosphor Wake Burn as your font family. Restart your editor if it doesn’t appear. The font stays monochrome; glow depends on your app’s rendering support.

03 / Put it on the web

Keep the WOFF2 files beside the included CSS and link the stylesheet. Use Regular for the original pixel weight or Burn for a fuller silhouette at any size. Read the complete font notes ↗

View a self-hosted CSS example

Place this CSS beside the downloaded WOFF2 file.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Phosphor Wake Burn";
  src: url("PhosphorWake-Burn.woff2?v=1.100") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
.terminal {
  font-family: "Phosphor Wake Burn", monospace;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-synthesis: none;
  background: #08170f;
  color: #b9ff91;
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #b9ff9140, 0 0 14px #b9ff9173,
               0 0 36px #b9ff9159, 0 0 72px #b9ff9138;
}