Twitter — now branded X — uses Chirp, a custom sans-serif by Grilli Type introduced in 2021. The rebrand to X in 2023 kept Chirp; only the logo and product chrome changed.
Twitter — now branded X — uses Chirp, a custom sans-serif by Grilli Type introduced in 2021. The rebrand to X in 2023 kept Chirp; only the logo and product chrome changed.
A bespoke sans-serif Twitter commissioned to fix the inconsistencies of its old system-font stack. Blends American Gothic shapes with European grotesque proportions.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: TwitterChirp, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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Search for TwitterChirpThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: Chirp, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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Search for ChirpThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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Search for Apple Color EmojiGet Font Info inspected the homepage of twitter.com and parsed 1 stylesheet totalling 271.0 KB. Inside those stylesheets we found 12 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from mixed, and 8 CSS rules reference them across the page.
Open the live inspector and hover any text on twitter.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for twitter.comChirp was designed by Cause and Affect / Grilli Type, released in 2021. A bespoke sans-serif Twitter commissioned to fix the inconsistencies of its old system-font stack. Blends American Gothic shapes with European grotesque proportions.
No. Chirp is proprietary to Twitter (now X) and isn't available for public licensing. The closest free or commercial alternatives are GT America, Söhne, Inter.
If you want a similar look without Chirp, try GT America, Söhne, Inter, Helvetica Neue. GT America in particular is widely available and free on Google Fonts or under an open-source license.
twitter.com uses TwitterChirp, Chirp and Apple Color Emoji as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source and applied across 8 CSS rules on the homepage.
twitter.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source. Get Font Info detected 12 @font-face declarations across 1 stylesheet on the live page.
twitter.com loads TwitterChirp in 5 weights: 300, 400, 500, 700, 800. 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 TwitterChirp 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.
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 twitter.com with how other well-known sites load and use their fonts.
This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of twitter.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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