Telegram design system

What font does Telegram use?

Telegram’s website uses the system interface font for headings and body text. The system interface font is each visitor's own (San Francisco on Apple devices, Segoe UI on Windows), so nothing loads.

Telegram colour palette

Telegram’s home page is light (#FFFFFF background, #333333 text) and uses #0088CC for its main actions. Its palette: #FFFFFF, #333333, #0088CC, #8C8C8C, #222222, #E8E8E8.

• #FFFFFF
  97.1% · backgrounds
• #333333
  1.5% · text
• #0088CC
  1.3% · text
• #8C8C8C
  0.1% · text
• #222222
  0.1% · text
• #E8E8E8
  hairlines and grid lines
• #A2A2A2
  Text muted
• #000000
  On action

Type scale

Each size the page sets text in, with its weight and line height. Telegram’s largest type is 26px at weight 600.

Spacing and shape

Spacing steps the page leans on: 4px, 16px, 20px, 28px, 32px, 40px, 44px, 128px, 160px.

Corner radii: 4px, 8px. 1 shadow level measured.

What makes Telegram look like Telegram

Almost entirely neutral: 99% of the page is painted in #FFFFFF and #333333.

#0088CC is an accent: 1.3% of the page, used for text and small fills such as buttons. Don't fill large areas with it.

The largest type (26px -apple-system) is semibold (600).

Very airy: text covers 6% of the page.

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

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

:root {
  --color-background: #FFFFFF; /* Background */
  --color-text: #333333; /* Text */
  --color-text-muted: #A2A2A2; /* Text muted */
  --color-border: #E8E8E8; /* Border */
  --color-action: #0088CC; /* Action */
  --color-on-action: #000000; /* On action */
  --font-body: -apple-system, sans-serif; /* -apple-system */
  --type-headline: 26px; /* Headline, weight 600 */
  --type-headline-leading: 28.6px;
  --type-title-large: 23px; /* Title Large, weight 600 */
  --type-title-large-leading: 25.3px;
  --type-title-small: 20px; /* Title Small, weight 300 */
  --type-title-small-leading: 29.6px;
  --type-body-large: 16px; /* Body Large, weight 600 */
  --type-body-large-leading: 25.6px;
  --type-body-medium: 15px; /* Body Medium, weight 400 */
  --type-body-medium-leading: 23.7px;
  --type-body-small: 14px; /* Body Small, weight 400 */
  --type-body-small-leading: 22.4px;
  --type-label: 12px; /* Label, weight 400 */
  --type-label-leading: 18px;
  --space-4: 4px;
  --space-16: 16px;
  --space-20: 20px;
  --space-28: 28px;
  --space-32: 32px;
  --space-40: 40px;
  --space-44: 44px;
  --space-128: 128px;
  --space-160: 160px;
  --radius-sm: 4px;
  --radius-md: 8px;
}

How this was measured

PikSpec’s scanner read the telegram.org 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.

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

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