DM Sans
sans serif · Colophon Foundry
DM Sans
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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DM Sans
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 & ! ? @ # $ % ( ) “ ”
Kits using DM Sans
See the typeface as part of a complete system, not in isolation.
Rose Capsule Wellness
An editorial wellness kit on alternating cream, candy-pink, and full-bleed photo surfaces with a high-contrast Fraunces serif, acid-yellow CTAs, and a floating pill-capsule navigation.
Meadowell
A complete premium design system available with Identity Forge Pro.
Cream Vermilion Didone
A complete premium design system available with Identity Forge Pro.
Folio Index
A stark editorial portfolio kit: pure-white content inside a pitch-black viewport frame, acid-yellow pill CTAs, oversized zero-padded index numerals, and hairline definition-list tables.
Putty Tour Grid
A gig-poster editorial kit on a pervasive warm putty canvas with vivid orange display type and a hairline-rule grid, distilled from silkscreen event-handbill language.
Ember Sheet
A 1970s American print-modernist kit where vivid burnt-orange replaces all typographic ink on warm off-white paper, anchored by an ultra-bold oversized wordmark, hairline-ruled tables, and strict flat geometry.
Pairs well with
Curated pairings that include DM Sans.
Art / culture
Syne
Body copy set at a comfortable reading size. The pair holds up across a headline, a paragraph, and the small print underneath it.
Magazine
DM Serif Display
Body copy set at a comfortable reading size. The pair holds up across a headline, a paragraph, and the small print underneath it.
DM Serif Display heading · DM Sans body · DM Mono mono
DM Sans FAQ
What kind of typeface is DM Sans?
DM Sans is a sans serif typeface designed by Colophon Foundry. Preview it in regular and bold weights and inspect its full character set above.
Which design kits use DM Sans?
29 Identity Forge design kits pair DM Sans into a complete brand system, with matching colors, semantic tokens, and a DESIGN.md a coding agent builds from. The design kits using this font are listed above.
Can I use DM Sans in my brand for free?
Yes. DM Sans is a Google Font, and you can apply it as your brand's typography in Identity Forge for free, then export the whole system (CSS, Tailwind, DTCG, or a shadcn registry) for your coding agent.
How do I use DM Sans with a coding agent?
Pick a design kit that uses it (or set it as a typography override), then install via the Identity Forge MCP server, the CLI (npx identityforge@latest apply <kit-slug>), or a shadcn registry endpoint. Each writes the fonts, tokens, and DESIGN.md into your project.