What Atlus has said about the design
Siliconera reported in November 2017 on an Atlus talk about the Persona 5 interface. The team chose an active, passionate red and used no other accent colours outside the health and magic bars, so the red would stay distinctive. Menus rely on strong contrast and changing angles, with a spinning 3D character model that ends in a pose. Menus and battle screens had separate designers. The report does not name any font.
Evidence for this attribution ↓No paid font selected
Free alternatives
Compare the actual letterforms with the same text. These are editorial alternatives, not fonts attributed to Persona 5.
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Arimo
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Regular · Latin specimen
A free sans designed to take the same space as Arial, so its bold weight is the nearest free match to the Arial reading of the logo. It is upright, so slant it by about 30 degrees in your design tool.
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Jost
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Regular · Latin specimen
A geometric sans in the style of Futura, with round O's and a one-storey a. Its bold weight, slanted, gives the Futura reading of the logo; the 5 in the logo is drawn differently.
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Archivo Black
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Regular · Latin specimen
A very heavy grotesque sans, useful for loud, menu-style captions in tilted boxes. It is heavier than the logo and not slanted, so it is a mood match rather than a copy.
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In 2024, Kotaku covered a Verge interview with series director Katsura Hashino. Kotaku writes that the first versions of Persona 5's angular black, red and white text boxes were very hard to read, and that the team fixed this through a lot of iteration. Talking about Atlus's later game Metaphor: ReFantazio, Hashino said every menu gets its own design, which he called really annoying to do.
Evidence for this attribution ↓What fans match the logo to
In a DaFont forum thread about the logo, one user in 2019 said they skewed the logo back by 32 degrees and found that the words matched Arial in bold. Another user in 2023 said the word Persona looks like Futura Std Bold sheared by about 33 degrees, and that the 5 is a different font. These are fan matches that disagree with each other, not confirmed answers.
Evidence for this attribution ↓How to get the look
The logo stacks a huge, steeply slanted P and 5 above the word PERSONA5 in heavy, slanted capitals. Pick a heavy sans, slant it hard (around 30 degrees) and set it in black or white on red. For the menus, mix sizes and angles, put words in tilted boxes, and keep to red, black and white. With free fonts, Arimo Bold slanted gives the Arial reading of the logo, and Jost Bold slanted gives the Futura reading.
Common questions
Is the Persona 5 font free?
There is no confirmed Persona 5 font to download. Fans match the logo to Arial Bold or Futura Bold, slanted. For a free version, slant Arimo Bold or Jost Bold. Fan-made fonts exist, but they are not from Atlus.
What font is used in the Persona 5 menus?
We found no reliable source that names one. Atlus has talked about the colours, angles and animation of the menus, but not about their fonts.
Does Persona 5 Royal use the same font?
We found no source that names the font for Persona 5 Royal either, so we cannot say whether it changed.
Sources & evidence
Editorial review completed November 10, 2026.