Open licence · Sans serif
Jost
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
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 Jost, 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 Jost, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Macondo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Macondo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Afacad webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Afacad.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Afacad Flux webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Afacad Flux.
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 →Jost as a free alternative to
Jost is suggested on 24 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.
- Futura commonly substituted
- Futura ND commonly substituted
- Futura Now commonly substituted
- Futura PT commonly substituted
- Avenir same classification
- Avenir Next same classification
- Brandon Grotesque same classification
- Century Gothic same classification
- Cera Pro same classification
- Code Pro same classification
- Euclid same classification
- Geograph same classification
- GT Eesti same classification
- GT Walsheim same classification
- Intro same classification
- ITC Kabel same classification
- Kabel same classification
- Karbon same classification
- Mr Eaves Sans & Modern same classification
- Neue Kabel same classification
- Raisonné same classification
- Stratos same classification
- The Future same classification
- Verlag 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.