Author's note

Virus 53X, designed by Nate Bridi in 1999, is a free futuristic display font with broad, low-slung mechanical letterforms and stark geometric joins. Heavy strokes meet squared curves and abrupt cutaways, producing a distinctly digital silhouette. Small gaps and detached details recur across the lettering like breaks in an electronic signal.

Digital graphics are its strongest medium, especially game interfaces, music artwork, and technology branding that benefit from its retro-computer edge. In science-fiction posters, its breaks can echo circuitry and screen glitches.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
©1999 by Nate Bridi
Font family
Virus 53X
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 Virus 53X
Full font name
Virus 53X
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 3/01/0
Postscript font name
Virus53X

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2000-01-03
Revision1
Glyph count249
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSans serif
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced