FONTS
A canvas that measures 36 pixels a side doesn't give you much to work with - it's a mere quarter of a square inch. But eBoy, a four-man Berlin design house, has worked with the lilliputian limitations to design dozens of images of people, monsters, bugs, and robots. Named Peecols, these expressive microdrawings are packaged as easy-to-use font sets. Each keystroke displays an upper body, a lower body, or a word balloon. Since the components snap together like mutant Lego blocks, you can come up with thousands of funny clip-art chimeras simply by tapping keys.
After you've salted your Web site with a few Peecols, you might want to pepper it with some correspondingly tiny text. A Tokyo-based designer named Yuji Oshimoto has created several itty-bitty free fonts for Web use. They are minuscule, but the letters are still quite legible, and you can make them into GIF files without anti-aliasing, which keeps the images as crisp as a vacuum-packed saltine.
Peecol set: $79. eBoy: (888) 333 6697,www.eboy.com. Oshimoto bitmap fonts: free. Oshimoto:www.04.jp.org/extra/bitmap.
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