Silkscreen

Jason Kottke · 2001 · OFL-1.1

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.

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Silkscreen at a glance

Commercial use
Yes · OFL 1.1
On a website
Yes · WOFF2 here
Variable
No · 2 weights
In a logo
Yes
Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
No
Italic
No

Alphabets

Style

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Weight — 400

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

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
Source
github.com/googlefonts/silkscreen

Silkscreen character map

226 characters in the complete font. Grouped by the alphabets it covers — every cell is a character the file really contains.

Latin110

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 Silkscreen on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin. The file is silkscreen.woff2, the same one the WOFF2 button above gives you.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Silkscreen';
  /* Take the WOFF2 button above, put silkscreen.woff2 wherever
     you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
  src: url('/fonts/silkscreen.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Silkscreen', sans-serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/silkscreen.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Silkscreen', sans-serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly.

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 Türkçe needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
What languages does Silkscreen support?
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.
What weights does Silkscreen come in?
Silkscreen comes in 2 weights: Regular (400) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.
Where can I download Silkscreen as WOFF2?
From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is silkscreen.woff2, and it is about 9 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.

Silkscreen 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

Designed by Jason Kottke

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

  • Taken unmodified from googlefonts/silkscreen
  • The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
  • This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026

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Cite this page

Silkscreen font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/silkscreen (updated 2026-09-04)

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