VHS Gothic

by Spottie Leonard

VHS Gothic is a pixel font reconstructed from VCR on-screen display bitmaps, cloned and refined from the FontStruction CHARGEN '92. The coarse pixel grid and softly rounded character corners nail the look of paused tape menus and 90s consumer electronics screens. It carries strong nostalgia for analog home video without leaning into pastiche.

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CC BY-SA✓ Verified

You can use this font commercially and modify it, but anything you create with it or derive from it must carry the same CC BY-SA license. Credit the original author. Covers CC BY-SA 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0.

Derivatives must also be shared under CC BY-SA; attribution to both Spottie Leonard and ParadigmTheGreat required.

Attribution

VHS Gothic by Spottie Leonard, based on CHARGEN '92 by ParadigmTheGreat, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

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License.txt explicitly states Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC BY-SA 3.0) for both the font and its source FontStruction.

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Family: VHS Gothic Regular – Regular
Glyphs: 390
Encoded characters: 389
Declared coverage: ASCIILatin-1Latin ExtendedCyrillic

Technical

File count: 3
Units per em: 1,024
Ascender / descender: 1024 / -128
Weight: Regular
x-Height: 63%

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