Press Start 2P
PressStart2P.zip · 120 KB · 2 files including OFL.txt
Typography profile
- Weights
- 400 only
- Italics
- None
- Scripts
- Latin (incl. Extended), Cyrillic, Greek
- Best for
- UI labels
- Greek text
- Cyrillic text
- Consider alternatives for
- Fluid or in-between sizes
- Long body text
- Characteristics
- Pixel grid
- Monospaced
- Historical revival
Styles
Press Start 2P Regular 400 at 18px
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Press Start 2P Regular 400 at 32px
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
BPOZZ Design Note
Its outlines sit on an eight-pixel grid, so it stays crisp at 8px, 16px and other multiples of 8 and softens in between. That rules out fluid clamp() scaling: step its size explicitly at each breakpoint instead.
BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.
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About Press Start 2P
- About
- A bitmap font based on 1980s Namco arcade games, extended with Greek and Cyrillic. It looks sharpest at 8px and multiples of 8.
- Designer
- CodeMan38
- Version
- 3.000
- Category
- Display
- License
-
SIL Open Font License 1.1
You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).
This family declares a Reserved Font Name: if you modify the font, the modified version must use a different name.
Copyright 2012 The Press Start 2P Project Authors (cody@zone38.net), with Reserved Font Name "Press Start 2P".
- Source
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Google Fonts
Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository. Added to Google Fonts 4 Apr 2012.
Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg.
- Available styles
- Regular 400
- Available formats
- TTF download and web preview
- Character sets
- Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Latin, Latin Extended