What Are the Facebook Fonts?
Facebook is a social networking website you can use to communicate with friends, family and professional contacts. The site uses a distinct variety of proprietary and third-party applications; however, there are consistent font families you see used throughout the core pages of Facebook and within its text-based logo.
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Logo
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The Facebook logo resembles several professional fonts used by graphic designers. Each has a subtle difference from the logo that can be noticed upon closer inspection, such as the lowercase "b" in Lucida Grande not having a tail in the font like it does in the image. TheFacebookFont.com lists Klavika, Linotype Ergo Bold and The Sans as fonts that the logo is potentially based on. The logo is a distinct design, and it's likely its creators made changes to a normal font to edit the final image according to their specifications.
Font Family
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The font family listed in Facebook's source code is Lucida Grande, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial and Sans-Serif. The computer used to visit the site will look for fonts in its font folder according to that order and move to the next choice if the one prior to it isn't installed. These fonts are used for basic text, such as updates or tags.
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Font Size
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Facebook uses an 11-point size font for its primary text. This design makes the website more accessible to mobile devices that use smaller screens and is also why the design is simple and compact. Headlines or menu headers are typically 12 points to 14 points, such as the "Top News" and "Most Recent" tabs at the top of your homepage.
Third-Party Fonts
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People or companies who host games, applications and Web pages on Facebook are given creative freedom in the fonts they use for their pages. Each page can create its own font family; however, those fonts need to be available on your computer to see the page as it was created to be seen.
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