What font does Airbnb use?

Airbnb uses Airbnb Cereal, a custom geometric sans-serif designed by Dalton Maag and Airbnb's in-house team in 2018. It replaced Circular as the brand's primary typeface.

Quick answer

Airbnb uses Airbnb Cereal, a custom geometric sans-serif designed by Dalton Maag and Airbnb's in-house team in 2018. It replaced Circular as the brand's primary typeface.

Airbnb Cereal

Custom / proprietary

A geometric sans-serif with seven weights, tuned for friendliness and global multi-script support. Used across the website, mobile apps, and brand marketing.

Designer
Dalton Maag with Airbnb
Released
2018
Where Airbnb uses it
Brand · Product UI · Body copy · Headlines
License
Proprietary to Airbnb.

Free or accessible alternatives

CircularPoppinsNunitoSofia Pro

Background

Before Cereal, Airbnb used Circular (Lineto). The switch was driven by a desire for a typeface they could extend to non-Latin scripts without renegotiating licenses for every variant.

What we found in the live CSS on airbnb.com

Primary font
Airbnb Cereal VF
Total weights
@font-face
18
Source
Mixed

Airbnb Cereal VF

Custom web font

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Weights loaded (1)

400Typography sets the voice of a brand

CSS to use Airbnb Cereal VF

font-family: 'Airbnb Cereal VF', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;

@font-face source

woff2https://a0.muscache.com/airbnb/static/airbnb-dls-web/build/fonts/cereal-variable/AirbnbCerealVF_W_Wght.8816d9e5c3b6a860636193e36b6ac4e4.woff2

Get this font

Airbnb Cereal VF
Commercial

Looks like a custom or commercial web font. Try MyFonts for licensing.

Search for Airbnb Cereal VF

Free alternatives if you can't license Airbnb Cereal VF

LoraGoogle Fonts

Workhorse free serif with great screen rendering.

Open
Source Serif 4Google Fonts

Cleaner contemporary alternative.

Open
MerriweatherGoogle Fonts

Heavier sibling for editorial body copy.

Open
Used by 10 selectors on the page

SFMono-Regular

Unknown source

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Weights loaded (1)

400Typography sets the voice of a brand

CSS to use SFMono-Regular

font-family: SFMono-Regular, ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, monospace;

Get this font

SFMono-Regular
Commercial

Looks like a custom or commercial web font. Try MyFonts for licensing.

Search for SFMono-Regular

Free alternatives if you can't license SFMono-Regular

JetBrains MonoGoogle Fonts

Modern free mono tuned for code.

Open
IBM Plex MonoGoogle Fonts

Distinctive alternative with strong personality.

Open
Fira CodeGoogle Fonts

Mono with programmer ligatures.

Open
Used by 1 selector on the page

How airbnb.com loads its fonts

Get Font Info inspected the homepage of airbnb.com and parsed 1 stylesheet totalling 1.58 MB. Inside those stylesheets we found 18 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from mixed, and 20 CSS rules reference them across the page.

Check the font on a specific element

Open the live inspector and hover any text on airbnb.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.

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Frequently asked questions

Who designed Airbnb Cereal?

Airbnb Cereal was designed by Dalton Maag with Airbnb, released in 2018. A geometric sans-serif with seven weights, tuned for friendliness and global multi-script support. Used across the website, mobile apps, and brand marketing.

Can I download Airbnb Cereal?

No. Airbnb Cereal is proprietary to Airbnb and isn't available for public licensing. The closest free or commercial alternatives are Circular, Poppins, Nunito.

What are free alternatives to Airbnb Cereal?

If you want a similar look without Airbnb Cereal, try Circular, Poppins, Nunito, Sofia Pro. Circular in particular is widely available and free on Google Fonts or under an open-source license.

What font does airbnb.com use?

airbnb.com uses Airbnb Cereal VF and SFMono-Regular as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source and applied across 20 CSS rules on the homepage.

Where does airbnb.com load its fonts from?

airbnb.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source. Get Font Info detected 18 @font-face declarations across 1 stylesheet on the live page.

What weights of Airbnb Cereal VF does airbnb.com use?

airbnb.com loads Airbnb Cereal VF without explicitly declaring weights — the browser picks the default Regular (400) and falls back to system rendering for bold and italic styles.

Can I use the same font as airbnb.com on my website?

Yes — once you know the font name, you can load it from the same source. If Airbnb Cereal VF isn't a fit (licensing, weight selection, look-and-feel), close alternatives include Lora, Source Serif 4 and Merriweather. Use the CSS snippet on this page as a starting point.

Is the font on airbnb.com free to use?

These fonts are self-hosted webfonts. They may be licensed commercially from a type foundry, custom-made for the brand, or freely available — you would need to identify the typeface and check its license at the foundry.

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About this page

This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of airbnb.com. Get Font Info reads the live CSS — every @font-face rule, every font-family declaration — so you see the exact fonts the browser used, not an image-based guess.

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