x10y12pxDenkiChipHangul is a 12-pixel Korean and Japanese pixel font. It extends x8y12pxDenkiChip (でんきチップ), the Japanese pixel font designed by hicc (患者長ひっく), with Hangul and additional characters for Korean text. The project is intended for games, user interfaces, web pages, and other settings that benefit from crisp, compact pixel lettering.
Except for Hangul and the other newly added characters, the glyph shapes inherited from x8y12pxDenkiChip are preserved unchanged. See the live demo for an interactive specimen.
The font includes Latin, Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana, punctuation, symbols, and a selection of CJK unified ideographs. Its Korean repertoire contains 4,358 Hangul syllables from Adobe-KR-0 and Adobe-KR-1, and it also includes 640 kanji used in Japanese text.
The build currently requires macOS because it uses Glyphs 3 and the Glyphs command-line tool.
Install the following prerequisites:
- Glyphs 3.5 or later with a valid license
- The
BDFplug-in from the modifiedquiple/BDFFileFormatrepository, installed in Glyphs 3 - Python 3.10 or later
- Make
Create the project-specific Python environment and install the pinned dependencies:
make setupBuild all font formats from the repository root:
makeThe build outputs OTF, TTF, WOFF2, and BDF font files.
After the outline TTF is generated, fontTools embeds integer-scaled 1-bit EBDT/EBLC bitmap strikes at 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 pixels per em.
Copyright 2026 Lee Minseo (quiple@quiple.dev).
Copyright 2026 The x8y12pxDenkiChip Project Authors (github.com/hicchicc/x8y12pxDenkiChip).
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. The license is included in this repository as OFL.txt and is also available with a FAQ at openfontlicense.org.
- hicc (患者長ひっく) and the x8y12pxDenkiChip project authors — original x8y12pxDenkiChip design
- Lee Minseo (quiple) (quiple@quiple.dev) — Korean extension, additional glyph design, font engineering, and project maintenance
The official copyright authors and project contributors are also listed in AUTHORS.txt and CONTRIBUTORS.txt.