Open licence · Serif
Bitter
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bitter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bitter.
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 Bitter, 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 Bitter, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Alegreya SC webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alegreya SC.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Slabo 13px webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Slabo 13px.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Piazzolla webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Piazzolla.
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 →Bitter as a free alternative to
Bitter is suggested on 11 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.
- Adelle same classification
- FF Meta Serif same classification
- Gimlet same classification
- Guardian Egyptian same classification
- ITC American Typewriter same classification
- ITC Officina Serif same classification
- Joanna same classification
- Joanna Nova same classification
- Lexia same classification
- Sentinel same classification
- TheSerif 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.