The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
DM Sans
A free alternative to Futura.
About DM Sans
- Designer
- Colophon Foundry / Indian Type Foundry
- Released
- 2014
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
DM Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Futura → A geometric workhorse drawn for screen use. The double-story 'g' is a departure from Futura's single-story 'g', but the underlying construction is geometric — choose this when body-copy legibility matters more than letterform purity.
- Gotham → Geometric workhorse drawn for screen use. Tighter proportions than Gotham but the same geometric construction principles — a strong choice when interface UI is the target rather than poster headlines.
Display + body that work together
Quiet type that does the work
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Modern · Editorial DM Sans + Crimson Pro
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.
Editorial · Modern Bodoni Moda + DM Sans