Encounter
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encounte.ttf
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Author's note
Encounter font by WhoAmI Design is a free decorative display typeface that looks like a signal pulsing from a retro sci‑fi console. Each character sits inside a rigid white frame, held up by black vertical bars that feel like antennae or landing gear, while the rounded forms inside keep it readable. The overall effect is stark, rhythmic, and slightly alien, as if your headline were marching across the screen of an old space shooter.
Using the Encounter font, your titles snap into a bold grid that instantly says arcade, tech, or secret experiment. This free font shines on sci‑fi posters, game splash screens, event flyers, YouTube thumbnails, album covers, and bold website hero text. Keep it large so the boxed silhouettes stay crisp, and pair it with a clean, neutral sans serif for body copy to let those strange, framed letters do the talking.
Using the Encounter font, your titles snap into a bold grid that instantly says arcade, tech, or secret experiment. This free font shines on sci‑fi posters, game splash screens, event flyers, YouTube thumbnails, album covers, and bold website hero text. Keep it large so the boxed silhouettes stay crisp, and pair it with a clean, neutral sans serif for body copy to let those strange, framed letters do the talking.
Character map
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Basic font information
Copyright notice
WhoAmI Design Aug'98 - heh! heh! heh! http://www.btinternet.com/~whoami/
Font family
Encounter
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
FontMonger:Encounter
Full font name
Encounter
Name table version
001.000
Postscript font name
Encounter
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MacintoshRoman
Font details
Revision1
Glyph count64
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PostureUpright
Stroke weightSemibold (Medium, when darker than Book)
PitchNot monospaced