Author's note

Glyphstream by Bill Roach is a free futuristic display font built from slim, squared strokes and conspicuous breaks. Open joints and long horizontals give the letters a circuit-board structure.

Audiences drawn to science fiction, electronic music, and retro computing will recognize its machine-made logic, which suits game interfaces, album packaging, and technology event posters with schematic or grid-based artwork. For editorial design, the font can turn magazine feature titles and special-issue covers into interface-like graphics, connecting stories about digital culture, engineering, or speculative technology with the signals and circuit traces suggested by its broken strokes, so the typography becomes part of an electronic diagram.

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Character map

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
c.2009 Bill Roach
Font family
Glyphstream
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Glyphstream 1.0
Full font name
Glyphstream
Name table version
Version 1.00 August 3, 2009, initial release
Postscript font name
Glyphstream
Designer
BIll Roach
Description
FFEBFBCED

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2009-08-03
Revision1
Glyph count236
Units per Em1024
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced