The way typography is used says as much about our brand as the words themselves.
The Ubuntu typeface has been specially created to complement the Ubuntu tone of voice. It has a contemporary style and contains characteristics unique to the Ubuntu brand that convey a precise, reliable and free attitude.
We use the Ubuntu font family by default, but you can specify any other font family to better suit your project.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
A: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
C: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
The family supports the full Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as well as Esperanto, with combining diacritical marks and a wide range of punctuation.
The Ubuntu font family are a set of matching new libre/open fonts. The development is being funded by Canonical on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag.
Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve. The typeface is sans-serif, uses OpenType features and is manually hinted for clarity on desktop and mobile computing screens.
The scope of the Ubuntu Font Family includes all the languages used by the various Ubuntu users around the world in tune with Ubuntu's philosophy which states that every user should be able to use their software in the language of their choice. So the Ubuntu Font Family project will be extended to cover many more written languages.
The Ubuntu font family is a sans-serif typeface family available in 22 styles plus a variable font with adjustable weight and width axes. Its fixed-width companion, Ubuntu Mono, comes in 8 styles and a variable font with an adjustable weight axis.
1,200 glyphs, 200-250 languages (native languages of 3 billion people!).
The pixels-per-em 7-segment digits are driven by the hint engine (substituted from the DejaVu fonts), so if hinting is by default off (e.g. Firefox) then the output will show as a pair of “88” numerals.
