Open licence · Sans serif
Lato
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
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 Lato, 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 Lato, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The DM Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not DM Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Figtree webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Figtree.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Fredoka webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fredoka.
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 →Lato as a free alternative to
Lato is suggested on 6 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.
- Calibri derived
- Gill Sans commonly substituted
- Gill Sans MT commonly substituted
- Gill Sans Nova commonly substituted
- Myriad commonly substituted
- Segoe UI 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.