Open licence · Serif
Instrument Serif
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Instrument Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Instrument Serif.
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 Instrument Serif, 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 Instrument Serif, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gupter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gupter.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Smythe webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Smythe.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Foldit webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Foldit.
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 →Instrument Serif as a free alternative to
Instrument Serif is suggested on 4 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.
- PP Editorial New commonly substituted
- Apoc same classification
- Matrix II same classification
- Swear 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.