About Persona 5
Persona 5 is Atlus's 2016 RPG about Tokyo students who moonlight as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, and its interface is the most quoted game UI of its decade. Black ground, a single blood red, white cut-outs — nothing else.
Every menu word tilts, every panel has a sawtooth edge, every title is assembled letter by letter from clipped typefaces like a ransom note. This system turns that attitude into tokens: flat print fills, hard offset shadows, zero radius and transitions that slash in on the diagonal.
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Era
- 2016 Japan release (Sept 15); worldwide April 2017; Persona 5 Royal October 2019
- Key figures
- Katsura Hashino · Shigenori Soejima · Masayoshi Sutoh · Shoji Meguro
- Movements
- Japanese RPG · Punk zine and ransom-note collage · Gentleman-thief picaresque
Persona 5 design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
AntonHeadings
Noto Sans JPBody
OswaldMono
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