Sixrow is Excellent's house typeface, and it is free for you to use

A scanline display face: capitals drawn on six rows, with a gap between the rows that you can open or close. Two families, four axes, free for personal and commercial use.

Download Sixrow 1.000

Sixrow-1.000.zip, 711 KB. No sign-up. Checksum and license

Weight 560Width 112Slant 0Scanline 14

Open the gap ★ 2026

Click the line and type. Lowercase sets as capitals.font-variation-settings: "wght" 560, "wdth" 112, "slnt" 0, "SCAN" 14;

Four axes in one variable file per family, from a hairline to a slab, narrow to wide, upright to a stair-step slant

The fourth axis is the gap between the rows. At 0 the strokes are solid; open it and each letter splits into separate horizontal lines.

Weight wght 100 to 800: from a hairline to a slab

Width wdth 75 to 150: narrow to wide

Slant slnt 0 to −16°: a stair step: each row shifts sideways while the strokes stay upright

Scanline SCAN 0 to 30: the gap between the rows, as a share of each row

Built from text

Every letter is a grid of characters in a plain text file.

sources/glyphs-mono.txt

@ A src=sample
| ........########........
| .....####......####.....
| ...####..........####...
| ...##################...
| ####................####
| ####................####

Six rows make a capital. A script reads the grids and builds the fonts from them: both families, every weight, width and slant, and the static styles. No font editor is involved. Change a row of dots, rebuild, and every style follows.

The EXCELLENT in our logo is set in Sixrow, and Excellent's star is in the font too. Type ★ and you get its true outline, cut by the font's rows, so it slants and opens up with everything else.

Capitals, figures and punctuation, with the accented capitals for every European Union language written in Latin, and dozens more

Sixrow is capitals only. Lowercase letters map to the capitals, so lowercase text sets as capitals. 372 code points in each family.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ Ā Ă Ą Ć Ĉ Ċ Č Ď Đ Ē Ĕ Ė Ę Ě Ĝ Ğ Ġ Ģ Ĥ Ħ Ĩ Ī Ĭ Į İ Ĳ Ĵ Ķ Ĺ Ļ Ľ Ŀ Ł Ń Ņ Ň ŉ Ŋ Ō Ŏ Ő Œ Ŕ Ŗ Ř Ś Ŝ Ş Š Ţ Ť Ŧ Ũ Ū Ŭ Ů Ű Ų Ŵ Ŷ Ÿ Ź Ż Ž Ș Ț Ẁ Ẃ Ẅ ẞ Ỳ

! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ × ÷ ˆ ˇ ˘ ˙ ˚ ˛ ˜ ˝ – — ‘ ’ ‚ “ ” „ • … ‹ › € ™ − ★

Sixrow Mono

The same rows on one fixed width, so columns line up.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

0123456789 $€£¥ +−×÷=

SIXROW MONO ★ ROW 6

Sixrow Mono sets the small capitals across excellent.so: the labels, badges and table heads on this page are in it.

In the box

Families: Sixrow, proportional, and Sixrow Mono, fixed width
Axes: Weight 100 to 800, Width 75 to 150, Slant 0 to −16°, Scanline 0 to 30
Styles: One variable font and 16 static styles per family, Thin to ExtraBold, upright and italic
Characters: 372 code points in each family: A to Z, figures, punctuation, currency and accented capitals
Features: Kerning (Sixrow); a plain zero on ss01 (the default zero is slashed); tabular figures on tnum (Sixrow)
Formats: TTF and WOFF2
Version: 1.000
License: Free for personal and commercial use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Read the license (OFL.txt)
Designer: Matt Waite
Publisher: Excellent
Source: github.com/excellent-so/sixrow

Sixrow 1.000, both families, every format, with the license

One zip: the variable fonts, the static styles, the web fonts and the license. Download it straight from this page, with no sign-up. Tell us what you make with it: hello@excellent.so.

Download Sixrow 1.000View the source on GitHub

File: Sixrow-1.000.zip
Size: 711 KB (710,931 bytes)
SHA-256: 5f2876daa223cdd5a7cb60dfea35c161092bc1cfec07a78f183909502fcc8674Check it with shasum -a 256 Sixrow-1.000.zip
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1