The shape of a working week
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Free alternatives to the world’s most-loved fonts
The paid fonts everyone wants free, our free picks, and the timeless classics.
Font of the day Sans-serif
Josefin Sans
A free alternative to ITC Avant Garde Gothic — A 1920s-flavored geometric with elegant, elongated proportions and a low x-height — less a clone than a cousin, capturing Avant Garde's deco-geometric mood in a lighter, more delicate register. Best at display sizes.
The paid fonts everyone wants
The free fonts we recommend most
The classic fonts everyone talks about
Free fonts, head to head
Display + body that work together
Headlines, written under pressure
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Crisp · Reportorial Switzer + IBM Plex Serif