Fonts similar to Silkscreen
The fonts most like Silkscreen are Ordinary16Pico (73 out of 100), Pixelzone (70) and Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP (59), then 97 more free fonts, compared letter by letter. Measured, the twelve closest have x-heights of 25–88% of the em (Silkscreen’s is 63%) and lowercase letters 25–100% of the em wide (74%), and three of them are display faces too. Where they differ, most are heavier (nine of twelve).
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Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP
Find the font. Find its kind.29% narrower · 47% heavier · x-height 20% shorter
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Fusion Pixel 8px Monospaced JP
Find the font. Find its kind.32% narrower · 52% heavier · x-height 20% shorter
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The 100 fonts like Silkscreen, measured
Silkscreen is wider than most fonts like it: 89 of the 100 are narrower and 5 wider. Few keep Silkscreen’s proportions: at most 6 keep its width, within 3%, Alpha Prota the closest of them. 73 are display faces like Silkscreen, and 22 sans serifs and 5 monospaced fonts come close too, Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP the closest of them. They part from Silkscreen most often in F (32 of the 100), E (24) and L (23).
WidthSilkscreen: 74% of the em
x-heightSilkscreen: 63% of the em
InkSilkscreen: 34% ink
ContrastSilkscreen: 0.96 : 1
- 1 less contrast
- Smokum 0 · less stroke contrast
StylesSilkscreen: 2 weights
LettersWhere they differ most
- F32 of 100
- E24 of 100
- L23 of 100
Questions about fonts like Silkscreen
What is the closest font to Silkscreen?
Ordinary16Pico, at 73 out of 100 in our letter-by-letter match: next to Silkscreen, it is 59% narrower and 31% heavier, with an x-height 50% shorter. After it come Pixelzone (70) and Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP (59).
Is there a free alternative to Silkscreen?
Silkscreen is free itself, under the SIL Open Font License. For another font with its feel, every font on this page is free too, and Ordinary16Pico, Pixelzone and Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP come closest.