Ubuntu is an OpenType-based font family, designed to be a modern, humanist-style typeface[1] by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag, with funding by Canonical Ltd.

[2][3] Its designers include Vincent Connare, creator of the Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS fonts.

[6][7] The final development is intended to include a total of thirteen fonts, consisting of: The monospace version, used in terminals, was initially planned to ship with Ubuntu 11.04.

[9] The font has been designed primarily for use on screen displays, and its spacing and kerning is optimized for body copy sizes.

[21] Fedora and Debian have reviewed this license and converged on interpreting it as non-free due to incomplete or ambiguous use and modification permissions.