- Heading
- Press Start 2P
- Body text
- Exo 2
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: futuristic
Press Start 2P
About the font
Press Start 2P is a free font by CodeMan38, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 398 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 75% of the em and the capital height is 100%.
Press Start 2P is a display font by CodeMan38 with 658 glyphs and a single regular style at weight 400. According to its source, it is a bitmap design inspired by 1980s Namco arcade games, and it works best at sizes of 8px, 16px and other multiples of 8. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, and it includes a wide range of non-ASCII characters such as Greek. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
CodeMan38
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
658
Character and uses
- Mood
- futuristic
- playful
- Design
- geometric
- wide
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Press Start 2P has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 398 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
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- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Macedonian
- Acoli
- Kongo
…and 291 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 656
- x-height
- 75% of the em
- Capital height
- 100% of the em
- Version
- 3.000
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Press+Start+2P
- Designer’s page
- zone38.net
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Press Start 2P font free to use?
Yes. Press Start 2P is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Press Start 2P support Cyrillic?
Yes, Press Start 2P includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Press Start 2P support?
Press Start 2P covers 398 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Press Start 2P?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Press Start 2P?
Press Start 2P was created by CodeMan38.
What is Press Start 2P good for?
Judging by its design, Press Start 2P suits: social media, headings, video titles and subtitles, posters.
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