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Open licence · Sans serif

Arimo

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Arimo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Arimo.

Arimothe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

tall x-heightnormal widthflat contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Arimo, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Arimo, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.

Archivoclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Syne webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Syne.

Syneslightly lighter

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Baloo Bhaijaan 2 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Baloo Bhaijaan 2.

Baloo Bhaijaan 2slightly lighter

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

What $39 buys →

Arimo as a free alternative to

Arimo is suggested on 5 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

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