Persona 5 mouse pads for the desk

Padrift's Persona 5 mouse pads and desk mats carry our own artwork inspired by Atlus's role-playing game about a group of students who steal hearts, printed in high resolution to the very edge of a 3 mm neoprene pad. The fabric top is smooth under the mouse, the base is non-slip, and the stitched border won't fray. You can choose among eight desk sizes, the smallest 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) and the largest 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), with each product page showing the ones that design comes in. We print the pad after you order it.

Persona 5 was released in Japan on September 15, 2016, and in North America and Europe on April 4, 2017. You play a transfer student sent to Tokyo on probation, who discovers he can enter the Metaverse, a world shaped by people's distorted desires, and forms the Phantom Thieves of Hearts with his classmates. Persona 5 Royal, an expanded edition with a new semester, a new Palace and new characters, followed in the West on March 31, 2020, and came to PC, Xbox and Switch in October 2022.

Red, black and white

Few games own a palette the way Persona 5 owns red, black and white. Menus, loading screens, the Phantom Thieves' calling cards and even the battle results all use the same three colors, with sharp edges and heavy contrast. That makes the game unusually easy to build a desk around.

A black keyboard with red keycaps, a red mouse or red lighting looks like it was chosen for the mat, and the white in the designs ties in white cables or a white monitor stand. On a white desk the same art turns graphic and bold, almost like a poster, and a design with more white space keeps it from feeling heavy. Warm red lighting deepens the reds; cool white light makes the whole palette crisper.

Menus that move

Persona 5's interface is famous in its own right. Menus tilt at angles, panels slide in over each other, and text appears in jagged, cut-out lettering that looks like it was clipped from magazines. Even the act of picking an item feels like part of the heist.

A design inspired by that interface makes a strong desk mat, because its energy comes from shapes and color rather than from one face that a keyboard might cover. Slanted red and black bands can run under the keys while the bold lettering and a character silhouette sit at the two ends, where they stay in view. It is the Persona 5 look for someone who loves the game's style more than any single character.

Joker's mask and Arsène

The protagonist, codename Joker, fights in a long black coat, red gloves and a white mask, and his first Persona, Arsène, appears behind him as a towering figure with a top hat, red-and-black wings and a grin. Those two shapes, the small white mask and the huge dark silhouette, carry the identity of the game.

On a long mat, Arsène belongs at the end opposite your mouse hand, rising behind the keyboard, with Joker small at his feet. On a small pad, the white mask on its own, set near the top edge, reads as Persona 5 to anyone who has played and as a clean graphic to anyone who hasn't.

Futaba's wall of monitors

Futaba Sakura, the Phantom Thieves' navigator, codename Oracle, is a hacker who spends most of her days in a dim room lit by a wall of computer screens. Her Persona, Necronomicon, is a floating machine she rides like a cockpit, scanning enemies and guiding the team through every fight.

For anyone whose own desk has more than one monitor, she is the character who fits. A Futaba design in her greens and oranges, or a scene of glowing screens in a dark room, suits a multi-monitor setup where code, chat and a game run at the same time. An XL or XXL mat covers the width that a wall of screens needs, with a keyboard in the middle and room for a second device.

An attic room above a café

Joker lives in the dusty attic above Café Leblanc, a small coffee shop in the Tokyo backstreets of Yongen-Jaya run by Sojiro Sakura. The attic is where his days end: a bed, a worn desk, a plant you can water, and a workbench where, late at night, he builds lockpicks and other tools for the next infiltration.

That room is a natural theme for a home desk. Warm wood, a lamp, a cluttered workbench and the glow of the café downstairs suit a wooden desk with warm lighting much more than the hard red of the menus do. For someone who crafts, builds models or solders at their desk, the workbench is a reference that lands.

Knowledge, Guts and exam week

Persona 5 is as much a school year as a heist story. Joker has five social stats, Knowledge, Guts, Proficiency, Kindness and Charm, and raising them opens new conversations and opportunities. Studying at the library, at a diner or at home raises Knowledge, and the game sets real exams where classroom questions test what you've been paying attention to.

That makes a Persona 5 mat an easy fit for a student's desk. A design with the Shujin Academy uniform's plaid or a calm Tokyo street at night sits under a laptop and textbooks without looking out of place, and the fabric top gives paper a flat, quiet surface to rest on between sessions with the mouse.

The calendar in the corner

Every day in Persona 5 has a date and a weather icon in the corner of the screen, and every day is split into after school and evening. You decide how to spend each slot: a Palace, a part-time job, a friend, a book or a movie. Deadlines loom over each Palace, so planning the calendar becomes half the game.

A design built on that calendar, stylized dates in the game's lettering running along the edge of a mat, suits a desk where you plan your own weeks. It is a quiet joke for anyone who keeps a planner open beside the keyboard and juggles deadlines of their own.

Palaces as palettes

Each Palace is the twisted inner world of one target, and each has its own look, which makes them a useful guide for matching a desk.

• Kamoshida's castle: gold, red carpet and gaudy statues of its owner, for a desk with gold accents.
• Madarame's museum: gallery walls, frames and painted color, for an artist's desk.
• Kaneshiro's bank: cold vault steel and cash, for a gray or silver setup.
• Futaba's pyramid: desert sand and gold under a hot sky, for light wood and warm lighting.
• Okumura's spaceport: sleek sci-fi corridors and worker robots, for a white or silver desk.
• Sae's casino: neon, felt tables and flashing lights, for a desk with RGB.

Mementos and the Velvet Room

Two other places give the game its strongest contrast. Mementos, a twisted version of Tokyo's subway that runs under every Palace, is a maze of red-lit tunnels and twisting tracks that fills a black mat with a sense of speed. It suits red lighting and a black keyboard.

The Velvet Room is its opposite. In Persona 5 it takes the form of a blue prison, where the long-nosed Igor and his twin wardens, Caroline and Justine, help Joker fuse new Personas. Its deep blues and steel grays make the coolest palette in the game, a match for blue lighting or a desk where red would feel too loud.

Beneath the Mask on a rainy evening

Shoji Meguro's soundtrack, with vocals by Lyn, mixes acid jazz, funk and rock, from the opening Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There to the battle theme Last Surprise. Beneath the Mask, which plays when Joker walks Tokyo in the evening, is softer, and its rainy-day version has become music to study and work to well beyond the game.

A rainy Tokyo design, streetlights reflected in wet pavement and the red of a single umbrella, captures that mood on a desk. It is calmer than the battle art and suits late-evening work, a dim room and headphones.

The All-Out Attack finish

When every enemy in a battle is knocked down, the Phantom Thieves can launch an All-Out Attack, a burst of dust and stylized slashes that ends with a full-screen card showing a character's silhouette against red and black. Those finishing cards are among the most dramatic images in the game, and their wide, horizontal layout suits a long mat.

Because the battles are turn-based, the game never asks your mouse for quick aim, and plenty of players use a controller even on PC. A desk mat still gives that controller a soft place to rest, and an All-Out Attack design behind it puts the most satisfying moment of every fight on the desk.

Small symbols for a small pad

On the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, one shape says more than a crowded scene. The red-and-black eye of the Metaverse Navigator app is a neat, graphic icon. Joker's white mask, a single calling card or Morgana's round head with its big eyes all work just as well. Morgana insists he isn't a cat, and he spends a lot of the game telling Joker to go to sleep, which makes him a fitting guardian for a bedroom desk.

Blue, yellow and red

Persona 5 belongs to a longer series, and each modern entry has its own color: blue for Persona 3, yellow for Persona 4 and red for Persona 5. For someone who has played all three, a design that sets the three colors side by side, or a mat that pairs Persona 5's red with the blue of Persona 3 Reload, says more about their history with the series than any single game could.

Sizes for a Persona 5 desk

Size options change from one design to another, and the product page lists them. These are the setups each one suits.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	Joker's mask or the Navigator eye
Laptop and notes	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A rainy Tokyo street beside a laptop
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	Slanted menu bands in red and black
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	An All-Out Attack card across the desk
Multi-monitor desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	Futaba's wall of glowing screens
The whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Arsène rising behind the whole setup

L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), gives a menu-style design a little more length than M, and 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), suits a wide desk that can't take the depth of XXL.

Gifts for a Phantom Thief

A Persona 5 mouse pad suits someone who played it in 2017, someone who came back for Royal, a student juggling exams like Joker does, or anyone whose desk is already red and black. April 4, when the game launched in the West, and March 31, when Royal arrived, are both good dates to plan around. If you can't check their desk, the XL is the dependable choice, with room for a keyboard and a mouse, and the red-and-black menu style suits almost every setup.

Printing takes 1–3 business days, after which the pad is shipped from Turkey; US orders usually arrive 2–5 business days later, so leave about two weeks before a birthday.

Keeping red and black sharp

Black areas show dust and lint, and white areas show the gray of a resting wrist. Wipe both with a damp cloth when you notice them. For a deeper clean, wash the pad by hand in lukewarm water with a small amount of mild soap, rinse it well, press out the water with a dry towel and let it lie flat until dry. It can't go in the washing machine or the dryer, and an iron will spoil it; looked after this way, the reds stay strong.

A note on names

Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal and the names of characters, places and songs mentioned on this page are used only to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Atlus or Sega.