Ubuntu Sans
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/ubuntu-sans 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/ubuntu-sans/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Ubuntu Sans Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* ubuntu-sans-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Ubuntu Sans Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/ubuntu-sans:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
The Ubuntu Font Family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts in development during 2010-2011, with further expansion work and bug fixing in 2015 and 2022-2023. The development is being funded by Canonical Ltd on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation has been undertaken by Dalton Maag, Type Network, DJR, and Dual Type.
Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.
The new Ubuntu Font Family was started to enable the personality of Ubuntu to be seen and felt in every menu, button and dialog.
The scope of the Ubuntu Font Family includes all the languages used by the various Ubuntu users around the world in tune with Ubuntu's philosophy which states that every user should be able to use their software in the language of their choice. So the Ubuntu Font Family project will be extended to cover many more written languages.
Ubuntu and Canonical are registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.
To contribute, see github.com/canonical/Ubuntu-Sans-fonts.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/ubuntu-sans Designed by
Dalton Maag
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License
UFL-1.0