Font to download · free picture
Type a name or a title and see it in near-black letters on white, as the YouTube wordmark stands beside its red play button. Keep the picture for a thumbnail or a banner, or take the free font behind it.
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Background
A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
The font file is just belowThe original
by YouTube
YouTube’s own typeface is YouTube Sans, made for its titles and branding. It belongs to YouTube and is not given here, and the logo’s lettering is theirs too. It was made for the brand alone: no one sells it or gives it away.
Free to download
by Christian Robertson
Roboto Condensed is the narrow cut of Roboto, with even letters close to the condensed video titles YouTube was seen testing in 2026. It has small letters, numbers and accents. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 215 KB
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What the font has, before you download it.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
YouTube’s own typeface is YouTube Sans, which Google’s answer says was made in-house, with design work by Sharp Type, for video titles, channel names and branding. The sources name no file for the logo’s lettering, and the app’s text is a different font: Roboto on desktop and Android, San Francisco on iOS. In June 2026 YouTube was reported to be testing what looks like a condensed cut of YouTube Sans for the titles in its main feed.
The font given here is Roboto Condensed, drawn by Christian Robertson. It is not YouTube Sans and it is not the logo, but its narrow, even letters sit close to those feed titles, and anyone may use it, in personal or commercial work.
The logo is a red rounded box with a white play triangle, in YouTube red, #FF0000, and beside it the word YouTube in a near-black gray on white. In dark mode the word turns white and the box stays red. The letters are plain sans serif in mixed case, a capital Y and T with the rest small, and have no outline or shadow.
Solid on the Logo background draws your words in that gray on white, the way the wordmark stands beside the red box. Glow and Outline suit a dark ground of your own, where the real wordmark goes white; Clear keeps just the letters, for a thumbnail or a video you are editing.
YouTube sets titles in its own font and gives you no choice, so a font works in the pictures you make; for words typed into a title or a channel name, pick a Unicode look on copy and paste fonts.
YouTube Sans for video titles, channel names and branding, Roboto for the desktop and Android app, and San Francisco for the iOS app. Google’s answer says YouTube Sans was made in-house with design work by Sharp Type.
Roboto Condensed, given on this page, has the same plain, even letters in a narrower shape, and it is free. For thumbnails, Google’s answer lists Bebas Neue, Impact, Montserrat and Raleway.
YouTube Sans belongs to YouTube, and it is not given here. Some font sites list a YouTube Sans download marked free for personal use, so check what a site’s licence allows before you use it. Roboto Condensed costs nothing and may be used in any project.
Not as a font: YouTube gives you none to pick for a title or a channel name. Creators often paste in Unicode letters, such as those of cool fonts, though some phones show them as empty boxes. A font works in pictures such as thumbnails and banners.
You may sell what you make with Roboto Condensed: a poster, a shirt, a printed notebook. YouTube’s name, logo and play button remain YouTube’s property, so a design for sale should do without them.
Not affiliated with YouTube. Names and logos belong to their owners.
