The typeface on theguardian.com is GuardianTextSans, GH Guardian Headline and Guardian Headline Full, loaded across 91 @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: GuardianTextSans, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: 'GH Guardian Headline', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: 'Guardian Headline Full', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: GHGuardianHeadline, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: 'Guardian Text Sans Web', system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
Get Font Info inspected the homepage of theguardian.com and parsed 1 stylesheet totalling 75 B. Inside those stylesheets we found 91 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from custom web font, and 138 CSS rules reference them across the page.
Open the live inspector and hover any text on theguardian.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for theguardian.comtheguardian.com uses GuardianTextSans, GH Guardian Headline and Guardian Headline Full as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from a self-hosted webfont and applied across 138 CSS rules on the homepage.
theguardian.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont. Get Font Info detected 91 @font-face declarations across 1 stylesheet on the live page.
theguardian.com loads GuardianTextSans in 4 weights: 300, 400, 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 GuardianTextSans 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.
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This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of theguardian.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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