Typecase

Open licence · Serif

Libre Caslon Text

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.

Libre Caslon Textthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightwidehigh contrast

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 Libre Caslon Text, 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 Libre Caslon Text, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Gelasio webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gelasio.

Gelasioslightly narrower

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Taviraj webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Taviraj.

Tavirajclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Poly webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Poly.

Polyslightly narrower

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.

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Libre Caslon Text as a free alternative to

Libre Caslon Text is suggested on 10 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.

In the app

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