Open licence · Sans serif
Quicksand
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Quicksand webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Quicksand.
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 Quicksand, 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 Quicksand, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Raleway webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Raleway.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The M PLUS 1p webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not M PLUS 1p.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Strichpunkt Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Strichpunkt 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 →Quicksand as a free alternative to
Quicksand is suggested on 4 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.
- GT Maru same classification
- Omnes same classification
- Proxima Soft same classification
- Sofia Pro Soft 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.