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Open licence · Serif

Old Standard TT

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Old Standard TT webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Old Standard TT.

Old Standard TTthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low 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 Old Standard TT, 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 Old Standard TT, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Zen Old Mincho webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Zen Old Mincho.

Zen Old Minchoslightly smaller x-height · slightly rounder bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

GFS Didotslightly rounder bowls · slightly lower contrast

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

BJCreeslightly rounder 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.

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Old Standard TT as a free alternative to

Old Standard TT is suggested on 2 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

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.