Urbanist

Corey Hu · 2021 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Low contrast, true circles and a single-storey a — a geometric sans in the strictest sense, with less of the humanist softening most contemporary ones apply. That makes it clean at display sizes and a little relentless in a paragraph, which is the trade the style has always made. Nine weights with italics.

See Urbanist in a paragraphCompare with Albert Sans and Jost

Urbanist at a glance

Commercial use
Yes · OFL 1.1
On a website
Yes · WOFF2 here
Variable
Yes · 9 weights
In a logo
Yes
Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
Yes
Italic
Yes

Alphabets

Style

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Size ladder

96

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

64

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Specification

Designer
Corey Hu
Released
2021
Category
Sans-serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Headlines, Branding, Interfaces, Titles
Weights
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
496
Languages
Latin, Türkçe
Download size
97 KB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/urbanist

Urbanist character map

491 characters in the complete font. Grouped by the alphabets it covers — every cell is a character the file really contains.

Latin110

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

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • ‘
  • ’
  • “
  • ”
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • €
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §
  • †
  • •
  • …

Türkçe14

  • Ç
  • ç
  • Ğ
  • ğ
  • I
  • ı
  • İ
  • i
  • Ö
  • ö
  • Ş
  • ş
  • Ü
  • ü

Use Urbanist on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Türkçe. The file is urbanist.woff2, the same one the WOFF2 button above gives you.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Urbanist';
  /* Take the WOFF2 button above, put urbanist.woff2 wherever
     you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
  src: url('/fonts/urbanist.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Urbanist', sans-serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/urbanist.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Urbanist', sans-serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly.

Questions

Is Urbanist free for commercial use?
Yes. Urbanist is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, 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. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use Urbanist in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Urbanist belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Corey Hu. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Urbanist?
Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 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. Urbanist is a variable font: those files carry all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Urbanist that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 18 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Urbanist support Turkish?
Yes. Urbanist 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 Urbanist support?
Urbanist covers Latin and Turkish, across 496 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
What weights does Urbanist come in?
Urbanist comes in 9 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.
Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Urbanist?
Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 33 KB against 40 KB for the complete file, 18% 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 Urbanist as WOFF2?
From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is urbanist.woff2, and it is about 40 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.

Urbanist license

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by Corey Hu

Copyright 2021 The Urbanist Project Authors (https://github.com/coreyhu/Urbanist)

  • Taken unmodified from google/fonts
  • The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
  • This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026

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Cite this page

Urbanist font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/urbanist (updated 2026-09-04)

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