Airbnb design system

What font does Airbnb use?

Airbnb’s website uses Airbnb Cereal for headings and body text. Airbnb Cereal is not on Google Fonts; the closest free match is Figtree.

Airbnb colour palette

Airbnb’s home page is light (#F7F7F7 background, #222222 text). Its palette: #FFFFFF, #F7F7F7, #222222, #6C6C6C, #F2F2F2, #DDDDDD.

• #FFFFFF
  55.1% · backgrounds
• #F7F7F7
  40.5% · backgrounds
• #222222
  3.1% · text
• #6C6C6C
  1.1% · text
• #F2F2F2
  0.1% · backgrounds
• #DDDDDD
  0.1% · backgrounds, lines
• #DA1249
  0.1% · backgrounds
• #EBEBEB
  hairlines and grid lines
• #FF385C
  Negative

Type scale

Each size the page sets text in, with its weight and line height. Airbnb’s largest type is 28px at weight 700.

Spacing and shape

Spacing sits on a 4px grid: 4px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, 32px, 48px, 80px.

Corner radii: 4px, 8px, 12px, 20px, 32px, pill. 1 shadow level measured.

What makes Airbnb look like Airbnb

Almost entirely neutral: 99% of the page is painted in #FFFFFF and #F7F7F7.

#DA1249 is an accent: 0.1% of the page, as small fills such as buttons and badges. Keep it to small areas.

The largest type (28px Airbnb Cereal VF) is bold (700).

Open: text covers 8% of the page.

Airbnb DESIGN.md for Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable

A DESIGN.md is the brief an AI coding tool reads before it writes UI. This one carries everything on this page as rules a model follows: the allowed colours and what each is for, the fonts with free stand-ins, the type scale, spacing, corners, and the things Airbnb’s design never does.

Put it in your project root and ask your tool to follow it: “Read DESIGN.md and build [your product] in this design language.” It describes a style, not Airbnb’s product, so use your own name, words and images.

Download Airbnb DESIGN.md · View it as text

As CSS variables

The measured values as CSS custom properties, with free fonts standing in for licensed ones. Use them to learn from or to start a project in a similar style; Airbnb’s name, logo, words and images are theirs.

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Figtree:wght@400;500;700&display=swap");

:root {
  --color-background: #F7F7F7; /* Background */
  --color-surface: #DDDDDD; /* Surface */
  --color-text: #222222; /* Text */
  --color-text-muted: #6C6C6C; /* Text muted */
  --color-border: #DDDDDD; /* Border */
  --color-action: #F2F2F2; /* Action */
  --color-on-action: #222222; /* On action */
  --color-negative: #FF385C; /* Negative */
  --color-ffffff: #FFFFFF; /* 55.1% of the page, as fills */
  --font-body: "Airbnb Cereal VF", "Figtree", sans-serif; /* Airbnb Cereal VF on the site; Figtree renders */
  --type-headline: 28px; /* Headline, weight 700 */
  --type-headline-leading: 40.04px;
  --type-title-large: 22px; /* Title Large, weight 500 */
  --type-title-large-leading: 26px;
  --type-title-large-tracking: -0.02em;
  --type-title-small: 21px; /* Title Small, weight 700 */
  --type-title-small-leading: 30.03px;
  --type-body: 14px; /* Body, weight 400 */
  --type-body-leading: 18px;
  --space-1: 4px;
  --space-2: 8px;
  --space-3: 12px;
  --space-4: 16px;
  --space-5: 20px;
  --space-6: 24px;
  --space-8: 32px;
  --space-12: 48px;
  --space-20: 80px;
  --radius-sm: 4px;
  --radius-md: 8px;
  --radius-lg: 12px;
  --radius-2xl: 20px;
  --radius-3xl: 32px;
  --radius-full: 9999px;
}

How this was measured

PikSpec’s scanner read the airbnb.com home page in Chrome at 1440px wide on 14 October 2026: the computed styles of its elements, the fonts that rendered and how much of the page each colour covers. Websites change; capture the page yourself with PikSpec for today’s values, any page, and exports in five formats.

Airbnb is a trademark of its owner. This page is an independent measurement and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Airbnb.

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