Open licence · Sans serif
Public Sans
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public 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 Public 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 Public Sans, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Expletus Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Expletus Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Miranda Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Miranda Sans.
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 →Public Sans as a free alternative to
Public Sans is suggested on 18 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.
- Franklin Gothic (URW) derived
- ITC Franklin derived
- ITC Franklin Gothic derived
- Decimal commonly substituted
- Gotham commonly substituted
- Amplitude same classification
- Atlas same classification
- Calibre same classification
- Degular same classification
- FS Elliot same classification
- Halyard same classification
- Monotype News Gothic same classification
- News Gothic same classification
- News Gothic No. 2 same classification
- November same classification
- Pangea same classification
- Retina same classification
- Untitled Sans 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.