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Open licence · Serif

Tinos

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Tinos webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Tinos.

Tinosthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

normal x-heightnarrowhigh contrast

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 Tinos, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Tinos, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Unna webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Unna.

Unnaslightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Shafarik webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Shafarik.

Shafarikclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The STIX Two Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not STIX Two Text.

STIX Two Textslightly wider

These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

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Tinos as a free alternative to

Tinos 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.

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.