The first family planned as a system: 21 weights and widths numbered on a grid, so 55 is the regular and 75 its bold. Released the same year as Helvetica, and the designer's choice between the two.
Download Roboto, free ↗Google FontsUnivers itself is licensed. Roboto is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in RobotoLoading the face
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Roboto in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Roboto.
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Tip. Headline in Roboto, standing in for Univers, body copy in Roboto. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Roboto 700
72pxUnivers
48pxUnivers
32pxUnivers
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Roboto
Why Roboto. Frutiger's systematic weight logic survives best in Roboto's disciplined family. Univers itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Roboto, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Roboto, on its own. A neo-grotesque with Frutiger's systematic logic. Android's default, and it reads as one.
If Univers is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.