Nunito Sans
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · September 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Designing with Typography
Font pairings create visual hierarchy and contrast. Combining a strong heading font with a harmonious body font elevates editorial readability and brand personality.
Unlock the complete curated pairings library and advanced typographic recommendations for Nunito Sans.
Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/nunito-sans2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/nunito-sans/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Nunito Sans Variable", sans-serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* nunito-sans-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Nunito Sans Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/nunito-sans:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Nunito is a well balanced sans serif typeface superfamily, with 2 versions: The project began with Nunito, created by Vernon Adams as a rounded terminal sans serif for display typography. Jacques Le Bailly extended it to a full set of weights, and an accompanying regular non-rounded terminal version, Nunito Sans.
In February 2023, Nunito Sans has been upgraded to a variable font with four axes: ascenders high, optical size, width and weight. Cyrillic has been added and the language support expanded.
To contribute, please see github.com/googlefonts/NunitoSans.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/nunito-sansDesigned by
Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly, Manvel Shmavonyan, Alexei Vanyashin
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License
OFL-1.1