Press Start 2P

by Codeman38

Character Set

557 characters

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

Numbers

Punctuation

Size Waterfall

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Text Samples

Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

How vexingly quick daft zebras jump

Paragraph

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

Numbers

0123456789

2.718281828459045

9,876,543.21

Designer's Notes

Press Start 2P is a bitmap font based on the font design from 1980s Namco arcade games. 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. Additional non-Latin alphabets such as Greek and Cyrillic are eventually planned to be supported as well.

Editor Specimen