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Pokemon Font Generator

Fat capitals, a warm yellow fill and a thick blue outline — the look of the logo, in 9 styles, drawn on a canvas and saved as a transparent PNG.

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Pick a Pokémon look

9 styles. Each one is your text, live.

How it works

How to make Pokemon-style text

  1. Type your words

    A trainer name, a team title, the top line of a party invite. Up to 48 characters, and Enter starts a second line.

  2. Pick a look

    9 of them: the classic yellow with a blue outline, a 3D block version, one per element type, a slanted comic title and an 8-bit screen.

  3. Choose a background

    Transparent leaves the letters on their own, which is what you want over a photo or a coloured card. White or black if you need a flat image.

  4. Download the PNG

    Save it, or copy it straight to the clipboard. To drop it onto a photo afterwards, add text to an image handles the placing.

The lettering

What the Pokemon font actually is

There is no font to install. The wordmark on the boxes, the cards and the cartoon is custom lettering that was drawn once for the brand and never sold, so nothing you download can be the real thing. What makes it recognisable is a short list you can rebuild with any heavy typeface: capitals only, letters that sit at slightly different heights and angles, a yellow fill that warms towards the baseline, a thick blue outline, and a darker navy line outside that. The three-dimensional versions add a flat blue slab behind the letters rather than a soft bevel.

Each look here assembles those pieces over an open-licence typeface. Luckiest Guy and Lilita One are the heavy rounded ones that carry the classic and type-coloured styles; Bangers is the tall comic voice used for the slanted attack titles. The in-game text is a separate thing entirely — on the original handheld the dialogue box was a bitmap baked into the hardware, printed in the darkest of the screen’s four olive-green shades, which is what the Game Boy style copies using Press Start 2P.

Using it

Which look to use where

The classic yellow and the blue block are the ones people mean: they read at thumbnail size and hold up on a banner, a birthday invite or a video title card. Both want room — set over a busy photo the blue outline stops doing its job, so give the letters a plain band of colour or a dark corner to sit in. Three or four words is the ceiling before the line shrinks to fit and the bounce stops being visible.

The four type colourways are the same shape in a different hue, which is the point: make four team names in fire, water, grass and electric and they read as one set on a bracket or a party table. The Game Boy screen is the odd one out — a pixel typeface, so export it at roughly the size you will use it at, because scaling a pixel grid up softens exactly the edges that make it look 8-bit. For a blockier retro title, Minecraft-style text is closer; for red-and-gold arcade platformer lettering, try the Mario font generator.

Fair use

What you can make with it

This page is a fan tool, inspired by the logo and not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak or The Pokémon Company. Nothing here uses the brand’s own lettering or artwork, and the PNG contains only the words you typed — no logo, no mascot, no card frame. Pokémon, Poké Ball, the creature names and Game Boy are registered trademarks of their owners.

In practice that means the ordinary uses are fine: fan art, a child’s birthday invite, a classroom display, a Discord banner, a thumbnail for a video about the games. Selling merchandise is the line. A shirt, a sticker sheet or a printable that trades on the brand’s look is a trademark problem regardless of which typeface drew it, and swapping in an open-licence font does not change that.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What font is the Pokemon logo?

None that you can download. The wordmark is custom lettering drawn for the brand, not a typeface that was ever released, so every file sold or shared as "the Pokemon font" is either a fan tracing or an unrelated cartoon font with a misleading name. The closest openly licensed shapes are Luckiest Guy and Lilita One, which is what this page draws with.

Is this the real Pokemon font?

No. This is a fan tool with no affiliation to Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak or The Pokémon Company. It uses open-licence Google Fonts and paints them yellow with a blue outline to get the same feel. Pokémon and Game Boy are trademarks of their owners.

Can I sell things made with these images?

Not with the brand attached. Typing your own words in yellow-and-blue lettering for a birthday invite, a classroom display, a video thumbnail or fan art is the normal use. Putting it on shirts, stickers or printables you sell is where trademark law starts to matter, whatever font was used.

How do I get the letters with no background?

Set Background to Transparent above the preview, then Download PNG. The file keeps a clear alpha channel, so it drops onto a photo, a slide or a video edit without a white box around it.