YouTube font
YouTube sets its interface in Roboto, the typeface Google made, and Roboto is free: it is the first font below. The logo is lettering of its own, drawn after Alternate Gothic, and the brand’s headlines are in YouTube Sans, made for YouTube. The other fonts below are free too, with the logo’s narrow, bold build.
Roboto, and lettering of its own · 8 free fonts with its feel
01 / Free fonts with the same feel
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The fonts you pick set your words: up to six, from the list below.
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All 8 free fonts
Pick a font to set your words in it at the top, up to six.
01picked by eye
YouTube’s interface font
02picked by eye
Alternate Gothic, reworked
03picked by eye
Roboto, narrow and bold
04picked by eye
Narrow and sturdy
Also close, by our data
Each of these is among the twelve fonts our similarity data finds closest to at least two of the fonts above, measured letter by letter.
80match with Archivo Narrow
x-height 14% taller · less stroke contrast · 8% narrower
88match with Oswald
x-height 12% shorter · 14% heavier · 6% narrower
82match with Archivo Narrow
8% wider
82match with Roboto Condensed
21% wider · 29% lighter · x-height 6% taller
FontKind isn’t affiliated with YouTube or its owners. The name is a trademark of its owner, used here only to say which lettering this page is about. The fonts shown are free fonts with a similar feel, not the original lettering.
02 / The lettering, and your questions
01
What font does YouTube use?
Roboto, the typeface Google developed, is YouTube’s system and body text font; YouTube Sans, its own typeface, sets the headlines beside it. Source: Google Design: YouTube Sans
The wordmark was long a modified Alternate Gothic, and the new logo kept to it, redrawn for screens. YouTube Sans was built on the grid of the old play icon, which gave its ascenders their angled cuts; in 2018 it grew to seven weights. Source: Google Design: YouTube Sans
Oswald, the second font below, is a free reworking of Alternate Gothic. Source: Google Fonts: Oswald
02
Is the YouTube font free?
Roboto is, and so are the other fonts on this page: free, free for commercial use too, under open licences. The logo is lettering, not a font, and YouTube Sans was made for YouTube’s own use.
03
How do I use these fonts in Canva?
Search Canva’s font menu for the font’s name: Canva publishes no list of its fonts, so the menu is the only way to know. If it isn’t there, Canva Pro and Teams can upload a font file: get it from the font’s page here.
On the free plan, make a PNG of your words in the font generator and upload it as an image.
04
And in Cricut Design Space?
Install the font on your computer from its page here: Design Space lists the fonts on your computer as system fonts. Or type your words in the font generator and download the SVG: its letters come welded, to cut in one piece. More in Cricut fonts.
05
Can I use them on things I sell?
The fonts, yes: every font on this page is under an open licence that allows commercial use, on shirts, signs, cards and logos. But YouTube and its logo are someone else’s trademarks: a design that copies the logo or uses the name can still need the owner’s permission. This is a plain answer, not legal advice.
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