Sans serif · Stefan Schmidt

Tiny5

Q: Is Tiny5 free for commercial use?

Yes. Tiny5 is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 RegularThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Tiny5', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

01 / Light table

Laid on top of 3x5 Microfont

Tiny5 on one light table with its two closest fonts, 3x5 Microfont (84 out of 100) and Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP (84). 3x5 Microfont is 8% lighter; Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP is 10% wider.

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Size auto

Ink shared with Tiny53x5 Microfont…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

Open in the compare tool →

02 / Letters

The Tiny5 alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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With this font

Write your ownPixel font generator →Your words in Tiny5 and 24 more pixel fonts. Download any of them as a PNG for Canva or an SVG for Cricut.

03 / Sizes

Tiny5 at every size

1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words

12 px
16 px
24 px
36 px
48 px
72 px

04 / Facts

Who made Tiny5, and can you use it?

Designer: Stefan Schmidt
Kind: Sans serif
Styles: 1 weight (400)
On Google Fonts since: 2024
Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted or loaded from Google Fonts.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Tiny5 is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Tiny5, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Tiny5 under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Tiny5 on Google Fonts

05 / Measurements

Tiny5, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Tiny5. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 50.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 62.5% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.80lowercase against capitals
Width: 47.6% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 50%letter box filled

How we measure →

Where it stands among sans serifs

Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind

x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthNarrower than 69% of sans serifs
InkDarker than 82% of sans serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Tiny5

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Tiny5 →Compare side by side →Get Tiny5 on Google Fonts

07 / Swap

Swap Tiny5 without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Tiny5 loads, this sets Arial in its place at 96.2% of its size, so running text keeps Tiny5’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Tiny5 Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 96.24%;
  ascent-override: 90.92%;
  descent-override: 25.98%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Tiny5', 'Tiny5 Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Tiny5

Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list

Is Tiny5 free for commercial use?

Yes. Tiny5 is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Tiny5?

FontKind doesn’t host Tiny5’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.

Is Tiny5 in Microsoft Word?

Not until you install it: Tiny5 isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Is Tiny5 in Google Docs?

Most likely. Search for Tiny5 under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Is Tiny5 in Figma?

Yes: Tiny5 is in Figma’s font menu, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

How many weights does Tiny5 have?

Tiny5 comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

Who designed Tiny5?

Tiny5 was designed by Stefan Schmidt. It has been on Google Fonts since May 2024. Stefan Schmidt also made DotMatrix, DotMatrix Condensed, DotMatrix Expanded and one more on FontKind.

What fonts are similar to Tiny5?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are 3x5 Microfont (84), Fusion Pixel 8px Proportional JP (84) and Pixtile (81), out of 100. Next to Tiny5, 3x5 Microfont is 8% lighter. See all 100 fonts like Tiny5.