--- title: The Instagram Redesign Everyone Missed While Arguing... description: Instagram quietly overhauled its typography last week while the internet fixated on a minor logo tweak dubbed 'Instagzam.' The redesign replaced Instagram... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-instagram-redesign-everyone-missed-while-arguing-over-three-letters-remsnwhzw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Instagram Redesign Everyone Missed While Arguing Over Three Letters | daily.dev og:description: Instagram quietly overhauled its typography last week while the internet fixated on a minor logo tweak dubbed 'Instagzam.' The redesign replaced Instagram... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-instagram-redesign-everyone-missed-while-arguing-over-three-letters-remsnwhzw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/REmSnWHzw.png og:image:alt: The Instagram Redesign Everyone Missed While Arguing Over Three Letters og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Instagram Redesign Everyone Missed While Arguing Over Three Letters **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Instagram quietly overhauled its typography last week while the internet fixated on a minor logo tweak dubbed 'Instagzam.' The redesign replaced Instagram Sans, the custom typeface used for captions, comments, and DMs, and added two new fonts: a typewriter-style font for factual UI elements and a handwriting font for Stories and Reels. The piece argues the real story is that body text is meant to be invisible and legible, unlike a logo which just needs to be memorable, and notes the redesign's messaging about handmade creativity contrasts with Instagram's actual algorithm-driven, shopping-and-video-feed reality. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What font changes did Instagram make besides the logo update? Instagram redrew its custom typeface, Instagram Sans, used throughout captions, comments, and DMs, and introduced two additional fonts: a typewriter-style font for factual elements like settings and timestamps, and a handwriting font developed by testing real pens and pencils, for use on Stories and Reels. _Designers weighing UI typography choices can follow real-world redesign breakdowns like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Instagram Introduces Changes to Its Design for the First Time in Years](https://daily.dev/posts/instagram-introduces-changes-to-its-design-for-the-first-time-in-years-mah9cc7h1) · 80 LEVEL · 62 upvotes · 13 comments - [Google Sans: Evolving Google’s Typeface](https://daily.dev/posts/google-sans-evolving-google-s-typeface-1fr0qswio) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Hidden Details in Every Font](https://daily.dev/posts/the-hidden-details-in-every-font-2zr7olowf) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design), [#instagram](https://daily.dev/tags/instagram), [#typography](https://daily.dev/tags/typography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-instagram-redesign-everyone-missed-while-arguing-over-three-letters-remsnwhzw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Instagram Redesign Everyone Missed While Arguing Over Three Letters","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-instagram-redesign-everyone-missed-while-arguing-over-three-letters-remsnwhzw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-instagram-redesign-everyone-missed-while-arguing-over-three-letters-remsnwhzw"},"datePublished":"2026-08-17T19:25:30.185Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:41:48.787Z","description":"Instagram quietly overhauled its typography last week while the internet fixated on a minor logo tweak dubbed 'Instagzam.' 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