Typecase

Open licence · Serif

Bevan

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Bevanthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightwidehigh 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 Bevan, 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 Bevan, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Angkorclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Moulclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Alfa Slab One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alfa Slab One.

Alfa Slab Oneslightly larger x-height ยท slightly narrower

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.

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Bevan as a free alternative to

Bevan 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

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.