Press Start 2P

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Specification

Designer

Cody Boisclair

Released

2012

Category

Display

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Game UI, Retro graphics, Titles, Pixel art

Weights

400

Styles

Normal

Variable

No

Glyphs

658

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek

Download size

41 KB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/pressstart2p

Questions

Is Press Start 2P free for commercial use?

Yes. Press Start 2P is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Press Start 2P in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Press Start 2P belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Cody Boisclair. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Press Start 2P?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does Press Start 2P support Turkish?

Yes. Press Start 2P includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Press Start 2P support?

Press Start 2P covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Greek, across 658 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Does Press Start 2P support Cyrillic?

Yes. Press Start 2P includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Press Start 2P?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 17 KB against 29 KB for the complete file, 40% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Press Start 2P as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is press-start-2p.woff2, and it is about 29 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.