Baudot 5 Font

Baudot 5 by Richie Whyte is a free dot-pattern dingbat font with a coded, signal-like feel. Its marks are simple filled circles in a few sizes, arranged in compact vertical and horizontal groupings that suggest punch tape, domino pips, and early machine notation more than ornament.

That makes it a useful free font for editorial dividers, data-themed posters, interface graphics, zine covers, packaging accents, and title cards that need a stripped-back technical mood. The repeated dot clusters work best in short display settings, where the font can act like a visual code, a modular border, or a small system of symbols rather than conventional lettering.

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Named after the inventor mile Baudot, this is a 5 bit character set predating EBCDIC and ASCII, presented here in simulated punched paper tape form as used in TTY.