FF Unit®

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What is the FF Unit® font?

German type designer Erik Spiekermann and American type designer Christian Schwartz created this sans FontFont between 2003 and 2011.
The family has 14 weights, ranging from Thin to Ultra (including italics) and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, book text, editorial and publishing, logo, branding and creative industries, small text, wayfinding and signage as well as web and screen design.
FF Unit provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, small capitals, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, fractions, and super- and subscript characters. More…
It comes with a complete range of figure set options – oldstyle and lining figures, each in tabular and proportional widths.
As well as Latin-based languages, the typeface family also supports the Cyrillic and Greek writing systems.
In 2004, FF Unit received the TDC2 award.
This FontFont is a member of the FF Unit super family, which also includes FF Unit Rounded and FF Unit Slab.

FF Unit® Font families

The FF Unit® includes the following font families:

  • FF Unit Pro Light
  • FF Unit Pro Light Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Regular
  • FF Unit Pro Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Thin
  • FF Unit Pro Thin Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Medium
  • FF Unit Pro Medium Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Bold
  • FF Unit Pro Bold Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Black
  • FF Unit Pro Black Italic
  • FF Unit Pro Ultra
  • FF Unit Pro Ultra Italic
  • FF Unit OT Thin
  • FF Unit OT Thin Italic
  • FF Unit OT Light
  • FF Unit OT Light Italic
  • FF Unit OT Regular
  • FF Unit OT Italic
  • FF Unit OT Medium
  • FF Unit OT Medium Italic
  • FF Unit OT Bold
  • FF Unit OT Bold Italic
  • FF Unit OT Black
  • FF Unit OT Black Italic
  • FF Unit OT Ultra
  • FF Unit OT Ultra Italic

FF Unit® Preview

Here is a preview of how FF Unit® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is FF Unit® A free font? Is FF Unit® Free to Download?

No,FF Unit® is not free to download. You will need to pay for it I'm afraid. Almost every font that we list on HighFonts.com is a paid-for, premium font. We do have a Free Fonts section where we list free fonts that you can download. There is no point trying to find a free download of FF Unit® so please don't waste your time looking.

It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find FF Unit® for free. There's a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for FF Unit® remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!

If you really want FF Unit® and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)