Commercial · Sans serif · Microsoft Corporation
Verdana
Verdana is a licensed font from Microsoft Corporation: Complete family of 4 fonts: $149.00 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. Verdana is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Matthew Carter
- Styles
- 4
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 4 fonts: $149.00 USD (Individual Styles from $49.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Matthew Carter's sans for on-screen reading, hand-hinted by Tom Rickner for Microsoft, with generous widths and spacing for legibility at small sizes; four styles.
Free alternatives to Verdana
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Verdana 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 and a neutral, friendly appearance; the usual free choice for Verdana's screen-text role, though narrower.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Atkinson Hyperlegible webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Atkinson Hyperlegible.
same classification
A sans built for on-screen legibility with distinct letterforms, the same brief Verdana was designed for; not as wide.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans with generous spacing; similar legibility aims, tighter fit.
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