TikTok font

What TikTok says

TikTok announced TikTok Sans on 17 May 2023 in its newsroom. It said the typeface was created in collaboration with the type foundry Grilli Type and would be rolled out across the app and the brand, with the aim of supporting creative self-expression. At launch it covered languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Indonesian, Turkish and Vietnamese, with more planned.

From brand font to open source

TikTok later open-sourced the whole family under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Type Network, which describes Grilli Type as a Swiss foundry, says it led a nine-month expansion before that release. Designers Maria Doreuli and Krista Radoeva of Contrast Foundry drew new condensed and expanded masters and refined the Greek and Cyrillic letters, and Aaron Bell handled hinting. Their work turned a brand font into a family meant for wide public use.

On Google Fonts

Google Fonts lists TikTok Sans as an OFL sans-serif family designed by Grilli Type, Contrast Foundry and Type Network. Its catalogue entry was added on 9 July 2025. It is a single variable font with four axes: weight, width, slant and optical size. The character sets cover Latin, Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, so it works for most European languages out of the box.

How to get the look

The simplest route is to use TikTok Sans itself from Google Fonts; it is free for commercial use. For video captions, use a bold weight in short lines with strong contrast against the footage. If you need a font already installed in your design tool, Inter or Roboto give a similar clean, screen-friendly feel.

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