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Open licence · Serif

Marcellus SC

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Marcellus SCthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

normal x-heightnormal widthhigh 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 Marcellus SC, 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 Marcellus SC, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Marcellusslightly smaller x-height

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Jungeslightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Abhaya Libreslightly narrower ยท slightly narrower bowls

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.

What $39 buys →

Marcellus SC as a free alternative to

Marcellus SC 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.

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.