Open licence · Serif
Besley
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Besley webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Besley.
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 Besley, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Besley, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Andada Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Andada Pro.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Brygada 1918 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Brygada 1918.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rosarivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rosarivo.
These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Besley as a free alternative to
Besley is suggested on one licensed family’s profile. 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.
- Gimlet 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.