Sonos design system

What font does Sonos use?

Sonos’s website uses Aktiv Grotesk for headings and body text. Aktiv Grotesk is not on Google Fonts; the closest free match is Inter Tight.

Sonos colour palette

Sonos’s home page is light (#FFFFFF background, #000000 text). Its palette: #FFFFFF, #000000, #2E2E2E, #BFBFBF, #F5F5F5, #333333.

• #FFFFFF
  77.3% · backgrounds
• #000000
  15.1% · backgrounds, text
• #2E2E2E
  7% · backgrounds
• #BFBFBF
  0.2% · text
• #F5F5F5
  0.2% · text
• #333333
  0.1% · text
• #E0E0E0
  hairlines and grid lines
• #CDCDCD
  hairlines and grid lines
• #C59C6E
  Warning

Type scale

Each size the page sets text in, with its weight and line height. Sonos’s largest type is 96px at weight 500.

Spacing and shape

Spacing steps the page leans on: 4px, 8px, 12px, 16px, 20px, 24px, 32px, 40px, 48px, 56px, 80px, 112px.

Corner radii: 1px, 2px, 3px, 10px, 17px, 20px, pill. 3 shadow levels measured.

What makes Sonos look like Sonos

Almost entirely neutral: 100% of the page is painted in #FFFFFF and #000000.

The largest type (96px aktiv-grotesk) is medium weight, not bold (500).

Open: text covers 10% of the page.

Structure comes from thin grid lines, not from shadows or filled cards.

Sonos 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 Sonos’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 Sonos’s product, so use your own name, words and images.

Download Sonos 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; Sonos’s name, logo, words and images are theirs.

@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter+Tight:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap");

:root {
  --color-background: #FFFFFF; /* Background */
  --color-surface: #F5F5F5; /* Surface */
  --color-text: #000000; /* Text */
  --color-text-muted: #2E2E2E; /* Text muted */
  --color-border: #BFBFBF; /* Border */
  --color-action: #FFFFFF; /* Action */
  --color-on-action: #000000; /* On action */
  --color-warning: #C59C6E; /* Warning */
  --font-body: aktiv-grotesk, "Inter Tight", sans-serif; /* aktiv-grotesk on the site; Inter Tight renders */
  --type-display-1: 96px; /* Display 1, weight 500 */
  --type-display-1-leading: 115.2px;
  --type-display-2: 72px; /* Display 2, weight 500 */
  --type-display-2-leading: 86.4px;
  --type-display-3: 64px; /* Display 3, weight 500 */
  --type-display-3-leading: 76.8px;
  --type-display-4: 48px; /* Display 4, weight 500 */
  --type-display-4-leading: 57.6px;
  --type-display-5: 42px; /* Display 5, weight 500 */
  --type-display-5-leading: 42px;
  --type-display-6: 40px; /* Display 6, weight 400 */
  --type-display-6-leading: 48px;
  --type-title-large: 21px; /* Title Large, weight 400 */
  --type-title-large-leading: 27.3px;
  --type-title-small: 18px; /* Title Small, weight 400 */
  --type-title-small-leading: 25.2px;
  --type-body-large: 16px; /* Body Large, weight 400 */
  --type-body-large-leading: normal;
  --type-body-small: 14px; /* Body Small, weight 400 */
  --type-body-small-leading: 20px;
  --type-body-small-tracking: 0.014em;
  --space-4: 4px;
  --space-8: 8px;
  --space-12: 12px;
  --space-16: 16px;
  --space-20: 20px;
  --space-24: 24px;
  --space-32: 32px;
  --space-40: 40px;
  --space-48: 48px;
  --space-56: 56px;
  --space-80: 80px;
  --space-112: 112px;
  --space-160: 160px;
  --space-172: 172px;
  --radius-xs: 1px;
  --radius-sm: 2px;
  --radius-md: 3px;
  --radius-lg: 10px;
  --radius-2xl: 17px;
  --radius-3xl: 20px;
  --radius-full: 9999px;
  --radius-80: 80px; /* component radius */
}

How this was measured

PikSpec’s scanner read the sonos.com home page in Chrome at 1440px wide on 15 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.

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

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