The typeface on instagram.com is Segoe UI Historic, Fix for Mac Chrome 80 and Placeholder Font, loaded across 3 @font-face declarations. Every font family, weight and source on this page is read straight from the live CSS — no image guessing, no machine learning, just the rules the browser used.
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font-family: 'Segoe UI Historic', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'Fix for Mac Chrome 80', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'Placeholder Font', system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: !important, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: 'Optimistic Display', system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: 'Optimistic Text', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'Optimistic VF', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: Roboto, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: 'Instagram Sans Condensed', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'Instagram Sans UI', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: Menlo, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'M Ying Hei HK W05', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
Get Font Info inspected the homepage of instagram.com and parsed 1 stylesheet totalling 936.4 KB. Inside those stylesheets we found 3 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from mixed, and 108 CSS rules reference them across the page.
Open the live inspector and hover any text on instagram.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for instagram.cominstagram.com uses Segoe UI Historic, Fix for Mac Chrome 80 and Placeholder Font as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source and applied across 108 CSS rules on the homepage.
instagram.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source. Get Font Info detected 3 @font-face declarations across 1 stylesheet on the live page.
instagram.com loads Segoe UI Historic in 2 weights: 500, 700. If you want to match the look, request the same weights from your font host so you only ship what's actually used.
Yes — once you know the font name, you can load it from the same source. If Segoe UI Historic isn't a fit (licensing, weight selection, look-and-feel), close alternatives include Inter, Manrope and DM Sans. Use the CSS snippet on this page as a starting point.
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.
Compare the typography on instagram.com with how other well-known sites load and use their fonts.
This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of instagram.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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