Open licence · Sans serif
Libre Franklin
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
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 Libre Franklin, 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 Libre Franklin, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Miranda Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Miranda Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Expletus Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Expletus Sans.
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What $39 buys →Libre Franklin as a free alternative to
Libre Franklin is suggested on 18 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.
- Benton Sans derived
- Franklin Gothic (URW) derived
- ITC Franklin derived
- ITC Franklin Gothic derived
- ABC Monument Grotesk same classification
- Founders Grotesk same classification
- FS Elliot same classification
- GT America same classification
- Halyard same classification
- Mabry same classification
- Maple same classification
- Marr Sans same classification
- Monotype News Gothic same classification
- National 2 same classification
- News Gothic same classification
- News Gothic No. 2 same classification
- Proto Grotesk same classification
- Ringside same classification
In the app
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