Open licence · Sans serif
DM Sans
Quiet luxury, approachable
The DM Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not DM Sans.
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 DM Sans, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from DM Sans, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Google Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Google Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Figtree webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Figtree.
These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →DM Sans as a free alternative to
DM Sans 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.
- Metric commonly substituted
- Objektiv commonly substituted
- Colfax same classification
- Ping same classification
- PP Object Sans 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.