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Free font
Aldrich
A free alternative to Azonix.
About Aldrich
Aldrich is a squared sans drawn by Matt Desmond and published through Google Fonts in 2011, built in a single weight with boxy counters and flat shoulders. The construction is unambiguously technical: letterforms squeezed toward the rectangle, horizontals held straight across the shoulders, and a slightly condensed cut that gives the alphabet a machined, industrial rhythm. With only one weight in the family, it's a display face by design rather than a text workhorse.
That squared skeleton is what makes it a usable free stand-in for Eurostile. Aldrich leans hard into the same aesthetic — the rounded-rectangle geometry that made Eurostile shorthand for instrument panels and science-fiction credits — while running narrower and more austere than the original. Reach for it in headers, badges, and tech branding, where a single strong weight is all a layout needs; for anything requiring weight contrast or extended body copy, look elsewhere.
- Designer
- Matt Desmond
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Aldrich is also a free alternative to…
- Azonix → A squared technical sans with rounded corners and even stroke weight, built for the same tech and gaming contexts. It matches Azonix's machined, uppercase-friendly feel but is lighter and narrower, so it works better where Azonix would feel too heavy.
- Eurostile → A single-weight squared sans with boxy counters and flat shoulders that lean hard into the Eurostile aesthetic, with a slightly more condensed, industrial cut. Best for headers, badges, and tech branding.
- Stiff Staff → An industrial squared sans whose straight sides and flattened curves echo Stiff Staff's rigid construction. It is a single regular weight rather than a heavy one, so pair it with tight tracking or a stroke to approach the same density; the mechanical character is already there.
- Chicago → A single-weight industrial sans with flattened, squared-off bowls and a sturdy stroke that reads like an outline drawing of a screen font. It sits lighter than Chicago's bold menu weight and runs a little wider, but the squared rhythm of the letters is the closest in the catalog.
Display + body that work together
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.
A grammar of empty space
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Display · Editorial Aldrich + Source Serif 4