Open licence · Sans serif
Syne
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Syne webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Syne.
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 Syne, 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 Syne, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Questrial webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Questrial.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Baloo 2 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Baloo 2.
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 →Syne as a free alternative to
Syne is suggested on one licensed family’s profile. 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.
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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.