Silkscreen

Display · by Jason Kottke · 2 styles

Download

Silkscreen.zip · 66 KB · 3 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 and 700
Italics
None
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended)
Best for
  • All-caps titles
  • UI labels
Consider alternatives for
  • Fluid or in-between sizes
  • Long body text
Characteristics
  • Pixel grid
  • All caps

Styles

32px

  1. Silkscreen Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. Silkscreen Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. Silkscreen Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. Silkscreen Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

BPOZZ Design Note

Released in 1999 for small type in web graphics, it has no lowercase: the a–z keys return the same pixel capitals as A–Z. That suits badges, buttons and pixel-art headings, and the chunky retro-computing look also holds when it is set large.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

About Silkscreen

About
Jason Kottke's pixel typeface from 1999, designed to render crisply at small sizes in web graphics. Regular and Bold.
Designer
Jason Kottke
Version
1.001
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).

Copyright 2001 The Silkscreen Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/silkscreen)

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 23 Jun 2022.

Upstream project: github.com/googlefonts/silkscreen.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
  • Bold 700
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Latin, Latin Extended