Reddit Sans

Try Reddit Sans

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Reddit Sans ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Reddit Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Reddit Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Reddit Sans Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Reddit Sans SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Reddit Sans Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Reddit Sans ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Reddit Sans Black Black Italic

Reddit Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Reddit Sans

Reddit Sans is a humanist sans serif created for Reddit; the copyright notice names Reddit, Inc. The letters are open and fairly wide, with round bowls, a double-storey a, a capital Q whose tail crosses the bowl, and lining numerals, all visible in the specimen. Stroke contrast is low and the ends of strokes are cut clean. The family is a variable font in two files, upright and italic, each with a weight axis from 200 to 900. Eight named weights run from ExtraLight to Black, giving 16 styles. With 1,045 glyphs it covers the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. The official notes present it as one part of a set that also includes Reddit Sans Condensed and Reddit Mono. Stephen Hutchings is named as designer in the font data, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Reddit Sans works

Forum and community interfaces

It was drawn for a discussion platform: open letters at Regular for posts, heavier weights for titles and vote counts.

Long comment threads

Regular and Medium with true italic files keep quoted text and emphasis distinct in dense reading views.

Design systems

A continuous 200 to 900 axis lets tokens for labels, headings and badges come from a single pair of files.

Vietnamese and European-language products

The 1,045 glyphs include Latin Extended and Vietnamese, so localised screens stay in one family.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Reddit Sans

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Reddit Sans on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Reddit Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedditSans-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Reddit Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedditSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Reddit Sans", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Reddit Sans with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Reddit+Sans:ital,wght@0,200..900;1,200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weight is the only axis

Reddit Sans has no width or optical-size axis. The condensed design is a separate family.

Two variable files

Upright and italic are separate files, each spanning all eight named weights. Static instances are not in this package.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts