Commercial · Sans serif · Microsoft Corporation
Calibri
Calibri is a licensed font from Microsoft Corporation: Complete family of 6 fonts: $149.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Calibri is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Luc(as) de Groot
- Styles
- 6
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 6 fonts: $149.00 USD (Individual Styles from $49.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Microsoft's default Office sans, sold on MyFonts as Calibri (MS) in six styles; Adobe Fonts credits the design to Luc(as) de Groot.
Free alternatives to Calibri
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Calibri is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Carlito webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Carlito.
metric-compatible
Its page states it is derived from Lato and metric-compatible with Calibri; a drop-in replacement for documents.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
derived
Carlito is derived from Lato, so Lato is the same design family in its full weight range; not metric-matched itself.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
commonly substituted
A neutral humanist sans commonly used in Calibri's office role.
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