Ubuntu

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Specification

Designer

Dalton Maag

Foundry

Dalton Maag

Released

2010

Category

Sans-serif

License

UFL-1.0

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

User interfaces, Body text, Headlines, Documents

Weights

300, 400, 500, 700

Styles

Normal, Italic

Variable

No

Glyphs

1,264

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended

Download size

1.4 MB

Source

design.ubuntu.com/font

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 Türkçe 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.

What languages does Ubuntu support?

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.

Does Ubuntu support Cyrillic?

Yes. Ubuntu includes the Cyrillic alphabet, and the Cyrillic Extended set as well, which adds the letters for languages beyond Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian. This was read from the font file itself. The complete WOFF2 and the zip both carry it; only the Latin-only web file leaves it out.

What weights does Ubuntu come in?

Ubuntu comes in 4 weights: Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Ubuntu?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 67 KB against 124 KB for the complete file, 46% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Ubuntu as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is ubuntu.woff2, and it is about 124 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.

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.