Press Start 2P

Designed by CodeMan38

1 weights • Version 16 • On Google Fonts since 2012 • Popularity #258

Quick Summary

1

Styles

400-400

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

5

Languages / Subsets

Category
display
Best for
display
Descriptors
expandedcode
Scripts
Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
Origin
Greece
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 16, 2025

© 2012 The Press Start 2P Project Authors , with Reserved Font Name "Press Start 2P"

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About Press Start 2P Fonts

Press Start 2P is a bitmap font based on the font design from 1980s Namco arcade games. It works best at sizes of 8px, 16px and other multiples of 8. Although the design of uppercase letters and digits dates back to Atari's "Sprint" (1977), the specific glyph forms in this TrueType conversion are based on those from "Return of Ishtar" (1986), one of the first games to include and regularly use lowercase as well as uppercase letters in its screen font.

Unlike the original font from the "Return of Ishtar" ROM, Press Start 2P includes a wide variety of non-ASCII Unicode characters for pan-European use, including Greek and Cyrillic. It could be expanded to support other scripts.

To contribute to the project contact Cody "CodeMan38" Boisclair.

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