- Heading
- Ubuntu
- Body text
- Roboto Slab
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Ubuntu
About the font
Ubuntu is a free font by Dalton Maag, released under the Ubuntu Font License 1.0 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 432 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 69%.
Ubuntu is a sans-serif font with 1264 glyphs, available in 8 styles with weights from 300 to 700. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, and it includes all the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh needs. According to its source, the family was designed by Dalton Maag for the Ubuntu project and funded by Canonical Ltd. It is free to use under the Ubuntu Font License 1.0.
Author
Dalton Maag
License terms
Ubuntu Font License 1.0
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1264
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- technical
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Ubuntu has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 432 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
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- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Scots
…and 324 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 — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1194
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 69% of the em
- Version
- 0.83
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (1)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
Ubuntu Font License 1.0
- 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
The Ubuntu Font License asks that modified versions stay under the same license and that the font is not sold by itself, only as part of a larger package.
How 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/Ubuntu
- Designer’s page
- daltonmaag.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Ubuntu font free to use?
Yes. Ubuntu is distributed under the Ubuntu Font License 1.0 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Ubuntu support Cyrillic?
Yes, Ubuntu includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Ubuntu support?
Ubuntu covers 432 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.
How do I install Ubuntu?
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 Ubuntu?
Ubuntu was created by Dalton Maag.
What is Ubuntu good for?
Judging by its design, Ubuntu suits: interfaces, body text, headings, social media.
Pairs well with Ubuntu
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