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title: "What Font Does Discord Use? App, Logo and Website"
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# What Font Does Discord Use? App, Logo and Website

Author: [Lucky Oleg](https://webaloha.co/authors/lucky-oleg/) | Published Oct 28, 2026

**Discord has more than one font answer.** Its official app typeface is **gg sans**; its wordmark is a custom design based on **Ginto**. On the public marketing homepage we checked on **28 October 2026**, the browser drew paragraph text in **ABC Ginto Discord** and the main headline in **ABC Ginto Discord Nord**.

Those names describe different jobs. If you are identifying a screenshot or choosing typography for your own website, first decide whether you mean the app, logo or marketing page.

| Where you saw the text | Font answer | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Discord’s app interface | gg sans is Discord’s documented custom typeface | [Discord’s font FAQ](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/9507780972951-gg-sans-Font-Update-FAQ), published November 2022 |
| The Discord wordmark | A custom design based on Ginto | [Discord’s 2021 identity explanation](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009438682-A-Fresh-New-Look-to-Celebrate-Our-6th-Birthday) |
| Paragraphs on `discord.com` | ABC Ginto Discord in our sampled text | Our desktop browser check, 28 October 2026 |
| Main headline on `discord.com` | ABC Ginto Discord Nord | The same check, confirmed through Chromium’s rendered-font API |

We did not inspect a signed-in chat session, the desktop app or a mobile app. The app attribution above comes from Discord’s documentation, rather than a new test of every Discord client.

## What we measured on Discord’s website

We opened [discord.com](https://discord.com/) in a fresh, signed-out headless Chromium context at **1366 × 900 pixels**, with an **en-US** locale. The capture began at **15:03 UTC on 28 October 2026**. We used the font probe from our [top 1,000 website font study](https://webaloha.co/fonts-used-by-top-websites-2026/), which reads computed styles and asks Chrome DevTools which font actually drew the sampled text.

| Sample | Computed CSS family stack | Font returned by DevTools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| First visible `h1` | `Abcgintodiscordnord, Arial, sans-serif` | ABC Ginto Discord Nord |
| First visible `h2` | `Abcgintodiscordnord, Arial, sans-serif` | ABC Ginto Discord Nord |
| First visible `h3` | `Abcgintodiscord, sans-serif` | ABC Ginto Discord |
| First visible paragraph | `Abcgintodiscord, sans-serif` | ABC Ginto Discord |
| First visible link | `Abcgintodiscord, sans-serif` | ABC Ginto Discord Medium |
| First visible button | `Abcgintodiscord` | ABC Ginto Discord |

Here, “visible” means a text element with a visible layout box in the loaded document, including elements below the fold. We did not scroll to trigger additional content. DevTools returned font information for **all 23 sampled elements**. The main body and heading families also matched the results recorded in our separate September 2026 study.

This is stronger evidence than finding a family name in a stylesheet. The page’s loaded-font list also contained a face called `Ggsans`, but it did not account for the sampled rendered text. A loaded font may be unused in those elements; **loaded, declared and rendered are separate observations**.

Likewise, `Arial` in the headline stack was a fallback request. Its presence in CSS does not mean Arial drew that headline.

You can [download the public evidence JSON](https://webaloha.co/downloads/brand-font-checks-2026/browser-evidence-2026-10-28.json). It contains the stacks, rendered family names, sampling counts and test conditions, without redistributing Discord’s font files.

## Why gg sans and Ginto both appear in the answer

Discord’s [gg sans announcement](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/9507780972951-gg-sans-Font-Update-FAQ) described a rollout beginning on 1 December 2022 across its apps and other surfaces. That dated announcement explains the app’s typeface name. It does not establish that every future marketing headline must use it.

For the identity, [Dinamo documents a bespoke wordmark and customization of Ginto for Discord](https://abcdinamo.com/custom/discord). That is a different piece of evidence from inspecting a paragraph. Typing “Discord” in a retail Ginto font does not reproduce the custom wordmark.

The practical lesson is to attach a font finding to its **page, role and date**. “Discord uses gg sans” is useful for an app discussion, but it does not explain the marketing headline measured above.

## Can you use Discord’s fonts in your project?

Discord’s font FAQ says gg sans is not open source and is not available for use in your own projects. Finding a font request in DevTools does not supply a reuse licence. The same distinction applies to the custom Discord builds of Ginto we observed.

If you want the retail Ginto family, use [Dinamo’s Ginto page](https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/ginto) and check the licence for your intended use. Dinamo distinguishes web, app and other licences in its [licensing FAQ](https://abcdinamo.com/faq). A retail licence should not be treated as access to Discord’s bespoke version.

For a permitted use of the actual Discord logo, consult [Discord’s brand guidelines](https://discord.com/branding). They also restrict imitation of Discord’s visual identity. A font choice for your own brand should produce its own identity.

## Fonts to test for an independent community website

These are our starting points for a design brief, rather than exact matches to Discord’s custom lettering.

| Your project needs | A family to test | A useful first comparison |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A characterful community landing page with one family | [Outfit](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit) | Compare a bold two-line heading with a regular event description |
| A text-heavy member area or discussion interface | [Inter](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter) | Compare usernames, timestamps, long messages and compact buttons |
| Ginto’s actual retail letterforms | [Ginto](https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/ginto) | Trial the relevant styles, then obtain the licence that covers your use |

The Google Fonts repository includes SIL Open Font License 1.1 files for [Outfit](https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/outfit/OFL.txt) and [Inter](https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/inter/OFL.txt), checked on 28 October 2026. Keep the relevant copyright notice and licence with redistributed font files, and review the conditions before modifying them.

Try your real text before choosing: a long community name, “Join the next session”, `Il1 O0`, accented names and the longest message your layout must accommodate. A display face that works for three words may be uncomfortable in a conversation thread.

For the broader decision, use our [website font selection guide](https://webaloha.co/how-to-choose-fonts-for-your-website/). If you already have a reference page, the free [Website Font Checker](https://webaloha.co/tools/website-font-checker/) can identify families and stacks in public HTML and CSS. Confirm important matches in the browser’s **Computed → Rendered Fonts** panel, as we did here.

## Check conditions and limits

This was one public homepage visit from one connection. A separate Cloudflare trace check from the same machine reported network country **GB**. The browser ran on **macOS 27, Playwright 1.64.1 and Chromium 156.0.8078.4**. The existing study probe’s user agent advertised Chrome 153 with the identifying `WebAlohaFontStudy/1.0` token.

We checked robots.txt, waited for fonts to become ready and sampled text present in the document. There were no logins, clicks, consent choices or scrolling. The result does not cover other languages, mobile layouts, closed shadow roots, iframe text or content loaded after our waiting window. Fonts and experiments can change after this date.

For another example of the same distinction, see [what font Spotify uses](https://webaloha.co/what-font-does-spotify-use/), where its public web player’s UI and title families also have different names.

## Frequently asked questions

What font does Discord use?

Discord identifies gg sans as its custom app typeface. Its wordmark is a separate custom design based on Ginto. In our 28 October 2026 desktop check of discord.com, Chromium rendered ABC Ginto Discord for sampled paragraph text and ABC Ginto Discord Nord for the main headline.

Can I download and use gg sans?

Discord's official font FAQ says gg sans is not open source and is not available for use in your own projects. A font being downloadable by a browser does not establish permission to reuse it.

What free fonts should I test for an independent community website?

Outfit is a starting point for a characterful heading and body system; Inter is a starting point for text-heavy interfaces. Both have SIL Open Font License files in the Google Fonts repository. Neither is Discord's custom font or an exact replacement.

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Lucky Oleg is the founder of Web Aloha, a web design & SEO agency helping businesses ride the digital wave. With years of experience in WordPress, technical SEO, and web performance, he writes about what actually works in the real world.

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