Font profiles

Free alternatives, measured, for 1,953 families.

1,601 open-licence families with their character measured from the outlines and the families measured closest to them, and 352 licensed families with their price as printed on the foundry’s own page and the free faces suggested in their place.

Substitutions that keep the line breaks

Metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so swapping one for the other reflows nothing. It is the only substitution claim on this site that can be checked rather than argued, and these are all of them.

The ones people look up

• Helvetica
• Neue Helvetica
• Arial
• Gotham
• Futura
• Avenir
• Proxima Nova
• Akzidenz-Grotesk
• Univers
• Frutiger
• Gill Sans
• Optima
• Trade Gothic
• Interstate
• Times New Roman
• Adobe Garamond
• Baskerville
• Sabon
• Minion
• Clarendon
• Rockwell
• Archer
• Mrs Eaves
• Museo Sans
• Brandon Grotesque
• Graphik
• Canela
• Söhne
• GT America
• Suisse Int'l
• ABC Diatype
• Calibri
• Georgia
• Cambria
• Courier New
• Myriad

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