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Crystal Lightning

Born years ago on a grid of dots, redrawn now as a variable font. Weight sets the size of the dots, halo the light around them.

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Designer
Edgardo Maxia
Year
2008 · 2026
Classification
Display · Dotted
Styles
15 · Variable
Axes
Weight 100–900 · Halo 0–200
Character set
Basic Latin · More to come
Best for
Headlines and posters

RegularNearest style

Stars over the bay

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Crystal Lightning specimen cover: the words Crystal Lightning in dots of light on a dark LED panel. 15 styles, 2 axes, by Lamuella Crystal Lightning styles, from Thin to Black Crystal Lightning halo: Dry, Regular and Hyper Crystal Lightning character set Crystal Lightning in use Crystal Lightning variable axes: weight and halo

About Crystal Lightning

Crystal Lightning goes back to 2008. Edgardo was fourteen and could not find the font he had in mind, so he drew it himself on a free web platform, on a grid of dots: big dots with a hole in the middle and, around them, a halo of small dots. Something ethereal and fleeting, lightning made of crystal. Then he forgot about it, until in 2021 he found it still online.

The 2026 version redraws it with true circles and makes it variable. Weight sets the size of the dots, from Thin to Black. Halo sets the light around them: Dry has none, Regular has one ring, Hyper has two. There are 15 named styles.

For now it covers basic Latin; the rest of the Latin set is on its way.

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