Open licence · Sans serif
Oswald
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Oswald webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Oswald.
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 Oswald, 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 Oswald, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Special Gothic Condensed One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Special Gothic Condensed One.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Boogaloo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Boogaloo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Kenia webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Kenia.
These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Oswald as a free alternative to
Oswald is suggested on 9 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.
- Bureau Grot commonly substituted
- Knockout commonly substituted
- Titling Gothic FB commonly substituted
- Bebas Neue Pro same classification
- Obviously same classification
- Stratos same classification
- Trade Gothic same classification
- Trade Gothic Next same classification
- Tungsten same classification
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.