Open licence · Sans serif
Barlow
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Barlow webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Barlow.
Measured character
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 Barlow, 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 Barlow, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Saira Semi Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Saira Semi Condensed.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inria Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inria Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Sunflower webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sunflower.
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 →Barlow as a free alternative to
Barlow is suggested on 7 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.
- DIN Next commonly substituted
- FF DIN commonly substituted
- Amplitude same classification
- Interstate same classification
- PP Formula same classification
- Ringside same classification
- Uni Sans same classification
In the app
Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.