# Ubuntu font

> The sans serif made for the Ubuntu desktop by Dalton Maag: four weights with italics, hinted by hand for screens.

Ubuntu is a sans serif family drawn by Dalton Maag and funded by Canonical to give the Ubuntu operating system its own voice in menus, buttons and dialogs. Ubuntu has four weights, Light 300 to Bold 700, each with an italic, and 1,267 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. It is released under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Dalton Maag
- License: Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0 (https://ubuntu.com/legal/font-licence)
- Styles: 8 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 1267
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-02
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/ubuntu
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Branding, Tech

## About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a sans serif family created so that the character of the Ubuntu operating system could be seen in every menu, button and dialog. Its most recognisable trait, clear in the specimen, is the way stems on n, m, r and u bend into the curve with no spur, alongside a single-bowl g and a t with a curved foot; the result is rounded and open without being geometric. Dalton Maag did the design and implementation during 2010 and 2011 with funding from Canonical. The fonts use OpenType features and are manually hinted for desktop and mobile screens. The family has four weights, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold, with italics, eight styles in static files, and it is not a variable font. Each font holds 1,267 glyphs for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0.

## License

Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0. Copyright 2011 Canonical Ltd. Licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work.
- Modify the fonts and redistribute them, on their own or bundled with software.

Conditions:
- Copies must keep the copyright notice and the license text.
- Modified versions stay under the same license, and the license sets naming rules for them: a substantially changed version must be renamed.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://ubuntu.com/legal/font-licence

## Where it works

- **Desktop and mobile interfaces**: The family was drawn for menus, buttons and dialogs, and hand hinting keeps it sharp at small pixel sizes.
- **Software and open-source project sites**: The typeface was funded on behalf of the free software community and carries an open license, which suits developer-facing pages.
- **Body copy with a friendly tone**: Regular and Light with italics set paragraphs, and Medium adds emphasis without the jump to Bold.
- **Wordmarks and product names**: Spurless stems give a short lowercase name a distinct outline in Medium or Bold.
- **Products localised into Russian and Greek**: Cyrillic and Greek alphabets are part of every style, so translated screens keep the same typeface.

## Things to know

- **Four weights, top weight Bold**: The weights are 300, 400, 500 and 700. There is no thin, semibold or black.
- **Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0**: Use, modification and redistribution are permitted; notices stay in place and a substantially changed version takes a new name.
- **Sibling families**: Ubuntu Condensed and Ubuntu Mono are published as separate families with the same design language.

## FAQs

### Is Ubuntu free for commercial use?

Yes. Ubuntu is published under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0, which allows use, modification and redistribution, including in commercial work. Copyright and license notices stay with the fonts, and a substantially changed version has to be renamed.

### Who designed the Ubuntu font?

The Ubuntu font was designed and engineered by Dalton Maag. Canonical Ltd funded the development for the Ubuntu project.

### How many weights does Ubuntu have?

Ubuntu has four weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes eight styles.

### Is Ubuntu a variable font?

No. This Ubuntu package is not a variable font; it contains eight static TTF files.

### Which languages does Ubuntu support?

Ubuntu includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/ubuntu (trendhub)