Open licence · Sans serif
PT Sans
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
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 PT Sans, 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 PT Sans, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cairo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cairo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gudea webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gudea.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cairo Play webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cairo Play.
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 →PT Sans as a free alternative to
PT Sans is suggested on 11 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.
- ITC Officina Sans commonly substituted
- Base 9 & 12 same classification
- Fedra Sans same classification
- FF Meta same classification
- Frutiger same classification
- Myriad same classification
- Neue Frutiger same classification
- Panno Text same classification
- Seravek same classification
- Verdana same classification
- Whitney 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.