Open licence · Sans serif
Work Sans
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
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 Work Sans, 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 Work Sans, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Golos Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Golos Text.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Amiko webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Amiko.
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 →Work Sans as a free alternative to
Work Sans is suggested on 42 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.
- Aperçu commonly substituted
- Texta commonly substituted
- ABC Favorit same classification
- ABC Monument Grotesk same classification
- AG Book W1G same classification
- Aktiv Grotesk same classification
- Akzidenz-Grotesk same classification
- Akzidenz-Grotesk Next same classification
- Arial same classification
- Basis Grotesque same classification
- Benton Sans same classification
- Brut Grotesque same classification
- Bureau Grot same classification
- Case same classification
- Decimal same classification
- Founders Grotesk same classification
- Franklin Gothic (URW) same classification
- FS Emeric same classification
- Graphik same classification
- GT Zirkon same classification
- Helvetica same classification
- Helvetica Now same classification
- ITC Franklin same classification
- ITC Franklin Gothic same classification
- Mabry same classification
- Maple same classification
- Marr Sans same classification
- Matter same classification
- Monotype News Gothic same classification
- National 2 same classification
- Neue Haas Grotesk Display same classification
- Neue Haas Grotesk Text same classification
- Neue Helvetica same classification
- Neue Helvetica eText same classification
- News Gothic same classification
- News Gothic No. 2 same classification
- Niveau Grotesk same classification
- Patron same classification
- PP Neue Montreal same classification
- PP Right Grotesk same classification
- Proto Grotesk same classification
- Söhne 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.