Tetris Font
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- The Tetris Font by Erik and Martin Demaine (2020 & 2026) uses Tetris pieces to form letters and digits, with each glyph in the default font made of exactly one of each piece type (I, J, L, O, S, T, Z).
- Glyphs are designed to be constructible by stacking pieces one at a time with support, following Tetris rules; designs were hand-crafted with help from BurrTools software for feasibility checks.
- The font includes multiple variants: one-of-each-piece, single-piece-type fonts (e.g., light I, bold I, J, L, S, T, Z), and a puzzle font where letters are encoded by drop sequence.
- Related mathematical work shows that Perfect-information Tetris is NP-complete, with complexity results for k-tris, few rows/columns, and small numbers of piece types, inspiring the one-piece-type fonts.
- The typeface was inspired by a collaboration with Alex Streif and Kate Jones at BRIDGES 2017, aiming to adhere closely to Tetris rules including reflection and stacking support.