Grotesques, humanists and geometrics you can use without a retail licence.
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A low-vision sans that exaggerates character shapes so similar letters stay distinct at small sizes.
Braille Institute
Licence: OFL-1.1
Editor's pick
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The sans cut of IBM's corporate family, designed with Bold Monday. Neutral, with a hint of Gothic mid-century texture.
IBM
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A screen sans with a tall x-height, drawn for interface text. Variable, with a matching tight cut.
Rasmus Andersson
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A fork of Libre Franklin made for U.S. government sites. Neutral, metrically steady, and maintained in the open.
U.S. Web Design System
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A variable family that moves from a linear sans to a casual mono, designed by Stephen Nixon at Arrow Type.
Arrow Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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Adobe's first open-source family, a Gothic sans cut for UI and long text, now in its third generation.
Adobe
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A geometric grotesk with a large x-height, comfortable in UI and short marketing lines.
Andreas Rasmussen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A variable sans with a very wide width axis, from hairline condensed to extended display.
Etcetera Type Co
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A grotesque with a width axis, drawn in Buenos Aires, with Black and Narrow cuts in the same family.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The variable successor to Atkinson Hyperlegible, with a wider weight range on the same legibility model.
Braille Institute
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A Vietnamese-first grotesk that also covers Latin well, with a broad set of weights and italics.
Better Consultancy
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A slightly quirky Grotesque with a width axis, comfortable in titles and short UI labels.
Mathieu Triay
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A low-contrast variable sans with a flare axis, comfortable in both body and titles.
Kostas Bartsokas
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A low-contrast geometric sans commissioned from Colophon Foundry, with a serif and a mono in the same project.
Colophon Foundry
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A slightly squarish sans by Tyler Finck, with nine weights and italics, drawn for distinctive headings.
Etcetera Type Co
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Scandinavian grotesque drawn for the Familjen agency, compact and a little sharp in the details.
Familjen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A simple geometric sans aimed at product UI, with a clean italic and a full weight range.
Erik Kennedy
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Mozilla's interface sans, designed by Carrois, with a wide weight range and a well-known monospaced companion.
Mozilla
Licence: OFL-1.1
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Vercel's interface sans, drawn with Basement Studio. Tight spacing, a monospaced companion, and an OFL licence.
Vercel
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A contemporary Russian-designed sans for interfaces and text, with strong Cyrillic and Latin coverage.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The companion to Mona Sans, a slightly squarer Grotesque also commissioned by GitHub from Degarism.
GitHub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A humanist sans drawn for accessibility, with clear letterforms and a modest x-height for longer reading.
Olivia King
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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Instrument's variable sans, a clean Grotesque with a typographic italic, released as open source.
Instrument
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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An open revival of the Renner / Futura idea, drawn by Owen Earl, with a full weight axis.
Indestructible Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sturdy, slightly humanist sans by Caroline Hadilaksono, one of the League's early open families.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A grotesque with slightly square curves, originally drawn for Latin and later expanded.
Jonny Pinhorn
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A family with classical proportions and a warm curve, designed by Łukasz Dziedzic in Warsaw.
Łukasz Dziedzic
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A bold, geometric revival of ATF's Spartan, one of the League's early open releases.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sans researched for reading speed and comfort, with several width grades in the family.
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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An open revival of Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic, started by Impallari Type.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A semi-condensed modern sans with low contrast, designed as a workhorse for headings and UI.
Mikhail Sharanda
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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GitHub's variable brand sans, designed by Degarism, with a width axis that runs from condensed to extended.
GitHub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A minimalist sans that grew from Muli, with careful italics and a wide weight range.
Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The sans cut of Noto, Google's project to cover every writing system, with a huge Latin-Greek-Cyrillic core.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A rounded sans well suited to friendly UI, expanded from Vernon Adams's Nunito by Jacques Le Bailly.
Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A simple geometric sans with a wide weight range, released through Google Fonts.
Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A widely used humanist sans by Steve Matteson, released under the Apache licence rather than the OFL.
Steve Matteson
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A geometric sans with a friendly stance, built as a variable family for titles and UI.
OmarType / Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A contemporary Indonesian Grotesque with open counters and a generous weight axis.
Tokotype
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Part of the public-type project for the Russian language, a readable humanist sans with a serif companion.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The open typeface of CBC/Radio-Canada, a humanist sans with a narrow companion for tight columns.
CBC/Radio-Canada
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The display cut of Red Hat's family, with a bit more contrast, for titles next to Red Hat Text.
Red Hat
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The text cut of Red Hat's open family, slightly more compact than the Display file, for body and UI.
Red Hat
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The variable, many-axis successor to Roboto, with grade, width and optical size on top of weight.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A semi-condensed to extended family from Omnibus Type, useful when a layout needs a range of widths.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Schibsted's open news sans, a sturdy Grotesque drawn for headlines and digital news typography.
Schibsted
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The current Ubuntu interface sans, released under the Ubuntu Font Licence, with a matching mono.
Canonical
Licence: UFL-1.0
Variable
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A Grotesque based on early Grotesques, optimised for screen, with a wide weight range.
Wei Huang
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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