Commercial · Sans serif · Microsoft Corporation
Segoe UI
Segoe UI is a licensed font from Microsoft Corporation: Individual Styles from $39.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Segoe UI is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Styles
- 7
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Individual Styles from $39.00 USD — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Microsoft's Windows interface sans, listed on MyFonts in seven styles including Semilight, Semibold and the Symbol font; the page gives no designer.
Free alternatives to Segoe UI
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Segoe UI is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
commonly substituted
A humanist sans with open forms designed for print, web and mobile; the usual free stand-in for Segoe UI's interface role.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
Humanist sans intended for user interfaces; similar openness and economy.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
same classification
Semi-rounded humanist sans; comparable friendliness in interfaces.
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