Ubuntu Sans is a contemporary sans-serif typeface designed for clarity across user interfaces, documents and display text.
The family offers upright, italic and condensed styles, together with variable fonts for adjusting weight and width.
The project includes the finished fonts and the source files used to build them. Development is funded by Canonical, with design and implementation contributions from Dalton Maag, Type Network, DJR and Dual Type.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Variable fonts with adjustable weight and width axes.
- Static fonts ranging from Thin to ExtraBold.
- Upright and italic styles.
- Condensed variants for space-efficient typography.
- TrueType and OpenType font files.
- Webfonts and webfont subsets.
- Source and design files are available for modification.
- Automated builds and quality assurance testing with FontBakery.
- Tools for generating proofs and custom font instances.
Website: github.com/canonical/Ubuntu-Sans-fonts
Support:
Developer: Canonical Ltd
License: Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0
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