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Ubuntu
Canonical paid Dalton Maag to draw a typeface that would let Ubuntu be recognised in every menu and dialog rather than borrowing somebody else's voice, and the result has been on hundreds of millions of Linux desktops since. It is humanist with a distinct slant to its details — look at the way the t and the l finish, and at the peculiar curl on the lowercase g. It is manually hinted, which is rarer than it should be and is why it stays crisp at small sizes on screens that are not retina.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Extended
- Greek
- Greek Extended
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Ubuntu';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/ubuntu.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Ubuntu', sans-serif;
}License
UFL-1.0
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Ubuntu free for commercial use?
- Yes. Ubuntu is released under the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. Its conditions are about the font rather than your work: every copy you pass on has to carry the licence, the unmodified font has to keep its name, and a modified version cannot be released under a different licence. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Ubuntu in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Ubuntu belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Dalton Maag. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Ubuntu?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 8 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Ubuntu support Turkish?
- Yes. Ubuntu includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Ubuntu support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Greek Extended?
- Yes. Ubuntu covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Greek Extended, across 1,264 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Why is Ubuntu under a different licence from everything else here?
- Because Canonical wrote its own. The Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0 permits everything most people need — commercial work, embedding, installing anywhere, modifying and redistributing — and it is the only font in this archive not under the Open Font License, the Apache License or a public domain release. Two conditions differ from the OFL: you may charge a fee for passing the font on, which the OFL forbids, and anything derived from it has to stay under the Ubuntu licence rather than moving to another one. The full text is in the download and summarised in plain English on the licences page.