Silkscreen
Jason Kottke drew Silkscreen in 2001 for the specific problem of the time: readable interface text at sizes where a screen could not draw a curve. Every letter is built from whole pixels with no anti-aliasing intended, which means it is exactly right at its designed size and its multiples and wrong at everything in between. Set it at 8, 16 or 24 pixels and it is crisp; set it at 19 and the grid falls apart.
Alphabets
- Latin
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Jason Kottke
- Released
- 2001
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Interface labels, Retro graphics, Small headings, Game UI
- Weights
- 400, 700
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 228
- Languages
- Latin
- Download size
- 24 KB
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Silkscreen';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/silkscreen.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Silkscreen', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Silkscreen free for commercial use?
- Yes. Silkscreen 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 Silkscreen in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Silkscreen belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Jason Kottke. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Silkscreen?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files 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 Silkscreen support Turkish?
- No. Silkscreen covers Latin, but not the extra characters Turkish needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Turkish text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
- Does Silkscreen support Latin?
- Yes. Silkscreen covers Latin, across 228 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.