The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Comfortaa
A free alternative to Brandon Grotesque.
About Comfortaa
Comfortaa is a rounded geometric display sans drawn by Johan Aakerlund and released in 2008, built on circular skeletons with terminals cut fully round. Wide, open, and low in contrast, it carries a soft temperament throughout — geometry with the edges taken off entirely rather than merely eased, and enough spacing between letters to keep the roundness legible.
The rounded-geometric DNA it shares with Brandon Grotesque makes it the right pick when Brandon's warmth wants dialing up rather than matched; Comfortaa pushes the terminals considerably further. Against Kabel it works as a mood match instead of a lookalike, since Kabel slices its terminals at angles where Comfortaa rounds them, but the loose decorative charm that makes Kabel work on packaging and logos survives the translation. Keep it at display sizes, where the roundness reads as deliberate rather than approximate.
- Designer
- Johan Aakerlund
- Released
- 2008
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Comfortaa is also a free alternative to…
- Brandon Grotesque → Comfortaa pushes the rounded terminals much further than Brandon, but the rounded-geometric DNA is the same. The right pick when you want Brandon's warmth dialled up.
- Kabel → Another rounded geometric display face with the loose, decorative charm Kabel brings to packaging and logos. Its terminals are round where Kabel's are sliced at angles, so treat it as a mood match rather than a lookalike.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial Comfortaa + EB Garamond
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.
Editorial · Modern DM Serif Display + Comfortaa