The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Cabin
A free alternative to DIN.
About Cabin
- Designer
- Pablo Impallari
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Cabin is also a free alternative to…
- DIN → A neo-grotesque influenced directly by DIN, Edward Johnston's classic London Underground type, and the early 20th-century geometric tradition. Slightly more humanist than DIN, but the same engineered honesty.
- Gill Sans → Pablo Impallari drew Cabin explicitly drawing on Edward Johnston's and Eric Gill's typefaces — direct ancestral lineage. The lowercase 'g' is particularly close to Gill Sans's distinctive double-storey form.
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
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.
Letters that hold their nerve
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Editorial · Modern DM Serif Display + Cabin