- Heading
- Google Sans
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like
- The body font is made for reading
Google Sans
About the font
Google Sans is a free font by Google, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 655 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 51% of the em and the capital height is 72%.
Google Sans is a sans-serif font by Google, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and free to use. It supports Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and Kazakh scripts, including the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. The family has 6 styles in the weight range 400 to 700 and is distributed as a variable font. It contains 8311 glyphs.
Author
Google
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
8311
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- business-like
- Design
- geometric
- grotesque
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Google Sans has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 655 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Hindi
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Punjabi(Arabic)
- Telugu
- Marathi
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Persian
- Tamil
- Italian
- Filipino
- Gujarati
- Thai
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- Pashto
- Kannada
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Malayalam
- Odia
- Polish
- Punjabi(Gurmukhi)
- Hausa
- Amharic
- Oromo
- Bhojpuri
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Sindhi
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Uzbek
- Cebuano
- Awadhi
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Somali(Arabic)
- Romanian
- Nepali
- Maithili
- Assamese
- Nyanja
- Somali(Latin)
- Zulu
- Magahi
- Sinhala
- Khmer
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Central Kurdish
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Baluchi
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Tigrinya
- Belarusian
- Dari
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Uyghur
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Kashmiri
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Armenian
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Lao
- Sukuma
…and 540 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 3749
- x-height
- 51% of the em
- Capital height
- 72% of the em
- Version
- 14.000;[08f2ac800]
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Historical forms
hist - Stylistic sets (9)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Google Sans font free to use?
Yes. Google Sans is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Google Sans support Cyrillic?
Yes, Google Sans includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Google Sans support?
Google Sans covers 655 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Google Sans a variable font?
Yes. Google Sans is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Google Sans?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Google Sans?
Google Sans was created by Google.
What is Google Sans good for?
Judging by its design, Google Sans suits: interfaces, headings, body text, logos.
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