Rasterlume — Letters that glow and won't sit still.
Real type rendering live — not a picture. Type your own words below.
Rasterlume is a pixel letter with a glow that won't quite let go. Every letter sits on a 13-row grid, and off its right edge runs a fade of fine vertical hairlines that get thinner and farther apart as they drift away. Set it big and you see the lines. Set it smaller and they soften into a glow.
The family comes in five styles. No Blur is the clean letter. Blur adds the hairline bleed, and Strong Blur pushes it heavier and farther. The two layer fonts, Blur Layer and Strong Blur Layer, hold only the glow and share exact spacing with No Blur, so you can stack them and set the letter in one color and the glow in another. Purple letters with a pink glow, white with cyan, phosphor green on deep green. Your call.
It started with a single S I penciled onto a grid of dots, and the green terminal screens of the early '80s, where the letters never quite sat still. I didn't set out to copy an old monitor. I wanted the feeling of one, drawn for the way we design now, and it isn't tied to green.
There's a real lowercase, not doubled capitals, plus accented characters for Western European languages, currency symbols and full punctuation. That's 211 glyphs in every style, all of them spaced and kerned. It works best big: posters, album covers, game screens, tech branding, event graphics and any headline that needs a little electricity in it.
Rasterlume is a pixel display family built on a 13-row grid, with the glow of an old monitor drawn right into the letters. Fine vertical hairlines fade off the right edge of each character, the way a bright line smears across a tube screen. Set it big and you see every line; set it smaller and they soften into a glow. It works best on posters, album covers, game screens and tech branding.
Rasterlume was inspired by the green terminal screens of the early '80s, where the letters glowed and smeared a little to the right. It isn't tied to green, though. Set it in any color on any background, or stack its layer fonts to put the letters in one color and the glow in another: purple with pink, white with cyan, or phosphor green on deep green.
Rasterlume is built to layer. Its two layer fonts, Blur Layer and Strong Blur Layer, hold only the glow and share exact spacing and kerning with No Blur. Set your text in No Blur, duplicate it in place, switch the copy to a layer font and give it a second color. The glow lines up with the letters on its own, in Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Figma or the web.
Rasterlume has a true lowercase drawn on the same 13-row pixel grid as its capitals, not doubled capitals. Every style carries the same 211 characters: capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation, the accented letters of Western European languages, and the euro, pound and yen signs, all spaced and kerned. You can set real words and sentences, not just all-caps headlines.
In Rasterlume, Blur adds a fade of fine vertical hairlines off the right edge of every letter. Strong Blur pushes that bleed heavier and farther. No Blur is the clean pixel letter with no glow at all. Blur and Strong Blur have the glow built in, while the two layer fonts give you the same glows on their own for two-color work.
Rasterlume is licensed through MyFonts. Choose the license that fits your project on the MyFonts page.