Ubuntu
Designed By
Dalton Maag
8 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Ubuntu · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Ubuntu ↓TTF · Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0
Set Your Own Text
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A Clear Hierarchy
Ubuntu · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
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The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Canonical paid for this family in 2010 and 2011 so that Ubuntu would have a voice of its own in every menu, button and dialog box. Dalton Maag did the design and the engineering.
That job shaped the letters. They were hinted by hand for clarity on desktop and mobile screens, so interface text at small pixel sizes stays crisp. And the language coverage was meant to keep growing, since the Ubuntu idea was that a user should be able to run the software in the language of their choice; this release covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic with their extended sets, 1,194 characters per style.
It is the face of the Ubuntu desktop, so is it too tied to that for a brand that is not Ubuntu? A fair worry for a logo. For documentation or an app interface the association hurts less.
There are 8 styles, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold with an italic for each, and the italics are slightly narrower than the romans. Tabular figures and fractions are in the feature set, useful in settings panels and tables.
Characters & Figures
1,194 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Ubuntu
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1.2 MB ↓- Version
- 0.83
- License
- Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/ubuntu/ubuntu.css">
body {
font-family: 'Ubuntu', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Ubuntu Heading · Ubuntu Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.