X uses Chirp, the custom sans-serif Twitter commissioned in 2021 from Grilli Type. The platform kept Chirp through the 2023 rebrand to X — only the wordmark and product chrome changed.
X uses Chirp, the custom sans-serif Twitter commissioned in 2021 from Grilli Type. The platform kept Chirp through the 2023 rebrand to X — only the wordmark and product chrome changed.
A bespoke sans-serif blending American Gothic forms with European grotesque proportions. Designed specifically for Twitter to fix long-standing legibility issues with the old SF Pro / Roboto stack.
The bird-era 'Twitter Chirp' is the same font as the X-era Chirp — the rebrand kept the typography. Before 2021 Twitter relied on the system stack (Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Roboto).
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
font-family: TwitterChirp, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
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font-family: Chirp.c88864db, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: Chirp.ca6d679a, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: Chirp.d8ac01b2, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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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 x.com and parsed 1 stylesheet totalling 306.2 KB. Inside those stylesheets we found 38 @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 x.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for x.comChirp was designed by Cause and Affect / Grilli Type, released in 2021. A bespoke sans-serif blending American Gothic forms with European grotesque proportions. Designed specifically for Twitter to fix long-standing legibility issues with the old SF Pro / Roboto stack.
No. Chirp is proprietary to X (formerly Twitter) 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.
x.com uses TwitterChirp, Chirp.c88864db and Chirp.ca6d679a 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.
x.com loads its fonts from a self-hosted webfont and an unknown source. Get Font Info detected 38 @font-face declarations across 1 stylesheet on the live page.
x.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 x.com with how other well-known sites load and use their fonts.
This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of x.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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