YouTube uses YouTube Sans for the logo and brand expression, and Roboto for the rest of the interface and body copy.
YouTube uses YouTube Sans for the logo and brand expression, and Roboto for the rest of the interface and body copy.
A geometric sans inspired by the shape of the YouTube play button — note the angled terminals that echo the triangle. Released as part of YouTube's 2017 rebrand.
Google's house sans-serif. YouTube uses Roboto for menus, video titles, descriptions, and comments — the same family Google ships with Android.
font-family: Roboto, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
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font-family: Roboto, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
Free on Google Fonts under Apache 2.0.
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font-family: 'YouTube Sans', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
Loaded from Google Fonts on this site — free to use under the SIL OFL.
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font-family: 'Roboto Mono', ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, monospace;
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font-family: Oswald, system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, sans-serif;
Looks like a custom or commercial web font. Try MyFonts for licensing.
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font-family: Georgia, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;
Bundled with Windows and macOS.
Get Georgia from Microsoft (Matthew Carter)Get Font Info inspected the homepage of youtube.com and parsed 5 stylesheets totalling 2.71 MB. Inside those stylesheets we found 11 @font-face declarations — the rules a browser uses to download and register a custom typeface. The primary typefaces are served from mixed, and 500 CSS rules reference them across the page.
Open the live inspector and hover any text on youtube.com to see the exact font, weight, size and line-height for that element.
Open live font inspector for youtube.comYouTube Sans was designed by Saffron Brand Consultants and YouTube design team, released in 2017. A geometric sans inspired by the shape of the YouTube play button — note the angled terminals that echo the triangle. Released as part of YouTube's 2017 rebrand.
No. YouTube Sans is proprietary to YouTube and isn't available for public licensing. The closest free or commercial alternatives are Poppins, Montserrat, Gotham.
If you want a similar look without YouTube Sans, try Poppins, Montserrat, Gotham, Proxima Nova. Poppins in particular is widely available and free on Google Fonts or under an open-source license.
youtube.com uses Roboto, YouTube Sans and Roboto Mono as its primary typefaces. These fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, an unknown source and the operating system and applied across 500 CSS rules on the homepage.
youtube.com loads its fonts from Google Fonts, an unknown source and the operating system. Get Font Info detected 11 @font-face declarations across 5 stylesheets on the live page.
youtube.com loads Roboto in 7 weights: 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900. 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 Roboto isn't a fit (licensing, weight selection, look-and-feel), close alternatives include Inter, DM Sans and Work Sans. Use the CSS snippet on this page as a starting point.
At least one of these fonts is served from Google Fonts, which is free to use under the SIL Open Font License. Self-hosted webfonts may have their own licensing — check the foundry's license before using them on a commercial project.
Compare the typography on youtube.com with how other well-known sites load and use their fonts.
This page lists the fonts loaded by the homepage of youtube.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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