Open licence · Display
Forum
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Forum webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Forum.
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 Forum, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the display pool. The line under each names how it differs from Forum, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant Upright webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant Upright.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Ysabeau Office webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Ysabeau Office.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Ysabeau webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Ysabeau.
These are the first 3 of 1000 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Forum as a free alternative to
Forum is suggested on 2 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.
- Copperplate Gothic same classification
- Trajan 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.