Author's note

TMBG Severe Tire Damage by Brian Powers is a free dot-matrix display font with a blunt, low-res rhythm that feels borrowed from early LED signs and scoreboards. The letters are built from evenly spaced round pixels, giving the font a chunky grid logic and a slightly homemade electronic mood rather than a slick futuristic one.

That makes this free font a natural fit for poster headlines, mixtape covers, arcade-flavored branding, zine titles, and event flyers where a rough digital texture does some of the talking. It works best in short bursts - title cards, big initials, and compact wordmarks - because the repeated dot pattern is the whole voice.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
A free font based on Severe Tire Damage by TMBG, made by Brian Powers
Font family
TMBG Severe Tire Damage
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 TMBG Severe Tire Damage
Full font name
TMBG Severe Tire Damage
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 9/5/98
Postscript font name
TMBGSevereTireDamage

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1998-09-05
Revision1
Glyph count100
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthCondensed
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI