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Famous brand fonts: what Apple, Nike, Netflix and more use

The typefaces famous brands use, from Apple's SF Pro to Netflix Sans and Spotify Mix, who made them, and how to find the font any company's website uses.

· 6 min read· Brand Identity API

"What font does Netflix use?" has a short answer: Netflix Sans, a typeface Netflix had made for itself in 2018. Most famous brands are like that now. Their fonts are commissioned, named after the company and not for sale, which is why a font identifier run on a screenshot so often comes back with a near miss.

Below are the typefaces of 37 well-known brands. We checked each one on October 15, 2026 against the company's own pages, the type foundry's, or reporting from the design press, and we read the fonts each website actually loads.

Logo, typeface and website font are three answers

Before the list, one distinction that explains most wrong answers:

  • The logo is often lettering drawn once, not a font. Coca-Cola's script logo is the obvious example: you cannot type it.
  • The brand typeface is what the company sets its headlines, ads and packaging in. Coca-Cola's is TCCC Unity.
  • The website font can differ again. YouTube's brand typeface is YouTube Sans, but its interface sets body text in Roboto. Spotify's is Spotify Mix, but spotify.com still uses Spotify Circular for Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Greek and Devanagari.

The fonts of famous brands

BrandTypefaceMade bySinceNotes
AppleSF ProAppleNot statedApple calls it "the system font for Apple platforms"
NetflixNetflix SansNetflix with Dalton Maag2018Replaced Gotham
SpotifySpotify MixSpotify with Dinamo2024Replaced Spotify Circular
Coca-ColaTCCC UnityBrody Associates2018The company's first typeface of its own
MicrosoftSegoeMicrosoft2012 (logotype)The website uses Segoe UI Variable
GoogleProduct SansGoogle2015Drawn alongside the 2015 logo
AmazonAmazon EmberDalton Maag2016Released with the Kindle Oasis
AirbnbAirbnb CerealAirbnb with Dalton Maag2018
StarbucksSodo Sans, Lander, PikeNot statedNot statedSodo Sans for body copy, Lander as a serif accent, Pike for condensed headlines
McDonald'sSpeedeeDalton Maag, for Turner Duckworth's redesign2019Replaced Lovin' Sans
UberUber MoveJeremy Mickel (MCKL) with Uber and Wolff Olins2018
IBMIBM PlexIBMNot statedOpen source
InstagramInstagram SansInstagram with Colophon Foundry2022Regular, Headline and Condensed
YouTubeYouTube SansSaffron, with Letterjuice and URW++2017The interface sets body text in Roboto
X (Twitter)ChirpTwitter with Grilli Type2021Twitter's first typeface of its own
TikTokTikTok SansTikTok with Grilli Type2023Later open-sourced
FacebookFacebook SansMetaNot statedThe 2023 refresh refined the wordmark to match it
MailchimpMeans and GraphikNot statedNot statedMeans is the primary serif; the 2018 rebrand used Cooper Light
DropboxDB Sharp GroteskDropbox with Sharp TypeNot statedA custom cut of Sharp Grotesk; the website sets body text in Atlas Grotesk
DuolingoFeather BoldJohnson Banks and Fontsmith2019A headline face
IKEANoto IKEABuilt on Noto (Google and Monotype)2019Replaced Verdana, used from 2009 to 2019
VisaVisa DialectMucho with Commercial Type2022Visa Dialect UI for interfaces
MastercardFF MarkHannes von Döhren and Christoph Koeberlin (FontFont)2016Licensed, chosen for Pentagram's 2016 identity
RedditReddit SansRedditNot statedOpen source, with Reddit Mono and Reddit Condensed
TwitchRoobertMartin Vácha (Displaay)2019Licensed; the interface sets body text in Inter
SamsungSamsungOneSamsung2016Samsung Sharp Sans is used too
BBCBBC ReithBBC with Dalton MaagNot statedSans and Serif

"Since" is when the brand adopted the typeface, which for a licensed one like FF Mark or Roobert is later than the font's own release.

Fonts we found on brand websites

These companies do not publish a brand typeface that we could find, so this is what their websites load, read from each site's CSS on October 15, 2026. Print and packaging may differ.

BrandWhat the website uses
NikeHelvetica Now for text and headings, and Nike's own cuts named Nike Futura ND and Nike TG
StripeSöhne
SlackSalesforce Sans for body text and Salesforce Avant Garde for headings
Discordgg sans for body text and ABC Ginto for headings
TargetA cut of Helvetica named "Helvetica for Target"
PinterestPin Sans
FigmaFigma's own sans and mono families (figmaSans, figmaMono)
PayPalPayPal Pro
ShopifyAn Inter-based family (Shopify-Inter)
LinkedInNo brand font: the system font of the visitor's device

Brand fonts you can use for free

A few companies have open-sourced their typefaces:

  • IBM Plex, in Sans, Mono, Serif and Condensed, on GitHub and Google Fonts.
  • Reddit Sans, under the SIL Open Font License, on GitHub.
  • TikTok Sans, open-sourced after its 2023 launch.
  • Google Sans Flex, the next generation of Google's brand typeface, free on Google Fonts since November 2025.
  • Mozilla Headline and Mozilla Text, from Mozilla's brand guidelines.

A free font is not a free brand. Setting your product in IBM Plex is fine; making it look like an IBM product is not.

How to find the font any website uses

In the browser. Right-click the text, choose Inspect, and open the Computed tab: font-family lists the fonts in the order the browser tries them, and the first one that loaded is the one you see. The Network tab, filtered by Font, shows the files the page downloaded.

Without opening DevTools. Our free font finder reads the webfonts a site actually loads and names the heading font and the body font.

In code. Brand Identity API returns a company's fonts with their role and origin, along with its colors and logos:

javascript
const domain = process.argv[2] ?? "airbnb.com";

const response = await fetch(`https://brandidentityapi.com/v1/brands/${domain}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BRAND_IDENTITY_API_KEY}` },
});
if (!response.ok) {
  const { error } = await response.json();
  throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
}
const brand = await response.json();

for (const font of brand.fonts) {
  // type is "title" or "body"; origin is "google", "adobe", "custom" or "system".
  console.log(`${font.type}: ${font.name} (${font.origin}, weights ${font.weights.join(", ")})`);
}

The fonts come from the files the site loads, not from the fallback list in its CSS, so a custom brand font shows up as custom with its real name. Every account starts with 50 free lookups.

Each brand page answers "What font does this company use?" from the same data, next to its brand colors and logos. For how companies document their typefaces, see these brand guidelines examples.

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