Specimen
Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
1 weight · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Press Start 2P
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.714
stroke weight
52% of cap height
0.523
contrast
Medium
0.500
letter width
Expanded
1.905
Web embed
Use Press Start 2P on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Press+Start+2P&display=swap');
/* Press Start 2P */
body {
font-family: 'Press Start 2P', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Press Start 2P
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Press Start 2P.
Details
- Family
- Press Start 2P
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- CodeMan38
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 4, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext
About the Press Start 2P font
Press Start 2P is a display typeface designed by CodeMan38, first released to Google Fonts on April 2012. It ships with 1 weight and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 71% of the cap height, expanded letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Press Start 2P against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Press Start 2P is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.