Bebas Neue
The king of tall all-caps display faces
Type specimen
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About this font
Bebas Neue is Japanese designer Ryoichi Tsunekawa's (Dharma Type) poster face and one of the most imitated display fonts of the past decade: a single-weight, all-caps, extra-condensed (about 0.6:1) cut with razor-clean strokes carrying a shadow of 1920s Art Deco signage. It modernises 1930s German Kondens lineage - 'Neue' signals the new generation - stripping ornament to the skeleton, which slots perfectly into contemporary flat design. On Google Fonts under SIL OFL, it is the free, worry-free default for tall, tight, high-impact all-caps Latin headlines on posters, sportswear, carousels, e-commerce banners and digital signage.
Where it works best
For film and event posters, sport and streetwear, carousel and hero headlines, e-commerce campaigns, digital signage and album art. Use all-caps, big, default tracking; single words or short phrases land best - never paragraphs.
| Weights | 1 |
|---|---|
| First release | 2010 |
| Designed by | Ryoichi Tsunekawa |
| Rights holder | Dharma Type |
| Scripts | Latin |
| Licence | OFL SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Variable font | Not supported |
Licence and commercial boundaries
Licence：SIL Open Font License 1.1
The dominant permissive licence for open fonts: free commercial use, modification, embedding and redistribution. Its core duties are that derivatives stay under OFL without the Reserved Font Name, the licence text travels with the files, and the fonts themselves are never sold standalone. Works typeset with them belong wholly to you.
SIL OFL 1.1: free commercial use, embeddable, modifiable with reserved-name rules; no standalone sale.
Hard restrictions
- Single weight, no italics.
- Display only - not for body copy.
- No standalone sale.
Official channels
- Go to official download → https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue
- Read the original licence → https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bebas+Neue
Last verified：2026-09-07
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