Open licence · Serif
Cardo
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cardo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cardo.
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 Cardo, 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 Cardo, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Caudex webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Caudex.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bona Nova webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bona Nova.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Sedan webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sedan.
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 →Cardo as a free alternative to
Cardo is suggested on 10 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.
- ABC Marist same classification
- Bembo same classification
- Bembo Book same classification
- Feijoa same classification
- Fern same classification
- Minion same classification
- Palatino Linotype same classification
- Palatino Nova same classification
- Terza same classification
- Tribute 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.