Commercial · Sans serif · Adobe
Myriad
Myriad is a licensed font from Adobe: Complete family of 40 fonts: $916.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Myriad is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly
- Styles
- 42
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 40 fonts: $916.00 USD (Individual Styles from $29.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly's humanist sans for Adobe; the MyFonts family lists 42 styles across weights and widths.
Free alternatives to Myriad
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Myriad is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
commonly substituted
Adobe's own open humanist sans for user interfaces; the same role Myriad plays in Adobe's catalogue, slightly narrower.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
same classification
A humanist sans with open forms and a neutral, friendly appearance; very close in spirit to Myriad.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans with open forms; squarer bowls and more condensed.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
commonly substituted
A semi-rounded humanist sans widely used where Myriad would be; softer terminals.
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