Open licence · Script
Kalam
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Kalam webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Kalam.
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 Kalam, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the script pool. The line under each names how it differs from Kalam, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Solitreo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Solitreo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Iceland webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Iceland.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Kavivanar webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Kavivanar.
These are the first 3 of 694 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Kalam as a free alternative to
Kalam is suggested on one licensed family’s profile. 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.
- Inkwell 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.