DM Sans

Low-contrast geometric sans intended for use at smaller text sizes.

Font settings

Weight400

Optical size14

These settings in CSS

.dm-sans {
  font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif;
}

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Google Fonts

Embed in the <head> of your HTML

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=DM+Sans:opsz,wght@9..40,100..1000&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Use DM Sans in CSS

/* <weight>: use a value from 100 to 1000 */

.dm-sans {
  font-family: "DM Sans", sans-serif;
  font-optical-sizing: auto;
  font-weight: <weight>;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm

npm install @fontsource-variable/dm-sans

Import once in your app entry

// Supports weights 100-1000
import "@fontsource-variable/dm-sans";

Use in CSS

body {
  font-family: "DM Sans Variable", sans-serif;
}

Self-host

Google Fonts and Fontsource serve stripped builds — most OpenType features are removed. Self-hosting the original files is the only way to get the full feature set.

Download the font files from the website and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/dm-sans.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Colophon Foundry (Latin base from Poppins)
Foundry: Colophon Foundry
Licence: OFL
Format: Variable (opsz, wght)
Variable axes: opsz, wght