font inspectorWhat font does Medium use?
Medium built its reputation on typography. The logged-out home page is nearly all type: one enormous serif headline over a quiet sans serif.
Short answer: Medium’s home page uses GT Super, a display serif, for its giant headline and Söhne for everything else. In the CSS they appear as gt-super and sohne.
Söhne
Self-hosted89.9%- CSS name
sohne- Weights
- 400
- Sizes
- 22px · 20px · 14px · 13px
GT Super
Self-hosted10.1%- CSS name
gt-super- Weights
- 400
- Sizes
- 120px
Sizes, weights and spacing by role
These are computed values from the live page, which is what the Font Inspector panel shows when you click each element.
| Role | Font | Size | Weight | Line height | Letter spacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headline | GT Super | 120px | 400 | 0.83 | -0.055em |
| Subheading | Söhne | 22px | 400 | 1.27 | normal |
| Button | Söhne | 14px | 400 | 1.43 | normal |
The main font stack in the CSS:
font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;- The headline is 120px with a line height of 0.83 and letter spacing of about -0.055em. Display serifs can take that kind of tightening, text faces cannot.
- The headline switches on lining, proportional numerals with the OpenType features
lnumandpnum. - Everything is regular weight, 400. The contrast comes from size and from pairing a serif with a sans serif.
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About the fonts, and whether you can use them
Söhne
Söhne is a grotesque sans serif by Kris Sowersby, published by Klim Type Foundry in 2019. Medium uses it for navigation, buttons and interface text.
Can you use it? Söhne is a commercial typeface from Klim Type Foundry. Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free fonts in the same neutral territory.
GT Super
GT Super is a high-contrast display serif from the Swiss foundry Grilli Type, inspired by expressive display serifs of the 1970s and 80s.
Can you use it? GT Super is a commercial typeface. Fraunces and Playfair Display are free display serifs with a similar sense of drama.
On Google Fonts: Fraunces, Playfair Display.
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Get a similar look with a free font
This starter uses Fraunces, which is open source, with the sizes and spacing measured above. It is an approximation, not a copy of Medium’s brand typeface.
/* Approximates the Medium look with a free font */
body {
font-family: "Fraunces", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
}
h1 {
font-size: 7.5rem; /* 120px */
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 0.83;
letter-spacing: -0.055em;
}How we checked
We opened medium.com in Chrome on September 20, 2026 and read the computed styles of its visible text: the declared font stack, the font actually rendered, and how much of the page’s text each family sets. That is the same data the Font Inspector extension shows under Fonts on this page. We re-check these pages periodically, and the date above shows the last inspection.
Medium and its typefaces are trademarks of their respective owners. Font Inspector is not affiliated with Medium.
Questions & answers
What font does Medium use on its website?+
Medium’s home page uses GT Super, a display serif, for its giant headline and Söhne for everything else. In the CSS they appear as gt-super and sohne.
Can I use the Medium font?+
Söhne is a commercial typeface from Klim Type Foundry. Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free fonts in the same neutral territory.
What is a free font similar to Söhne?+
Inter and Hanken Grotesk are free on Google Fonts and give a similar feel. No free font is an exact match, so compare it with your own text first.
How can I check what font Medium uses myself?+
Open medium.com, then click any text with the Font Inspector extension, or right-click, choose Inspect and look at Rendered Fonts in the Computed tab. Sites change their typography, so checking the live page is the only way to be sure.