The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Domine
A free alternative to Cheltenham.
About Domine
Domine is a sturdy screen serif from Impallari Type, released in 2012 and drawn specifically for body text on displays: short, stubby serifs paired with a large x-height. The color it sets is robust and workmanlike, and the compact proportions hold at small sizes where a finer serif would begin to thin out and gray the page.
Those proportions make it the closest single match on Google Fonts for ITC Cheltenham's compact sturdiness at text and subhead sizes. It covers similar ground to Imperial as well — slightly warmer, but sharing the same compact, durable news-text character. Reach for it in article body copy, news layouts, and dense editorial pages where the type has to stay legible under pressure and the page calls for weight and grip rather than delicacy.
- Designer
- Impallari Type
- Released
- 2012
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Domine is also a free alternative to…
- Cheltenham → Short, stubby serifs, a large x-height, and a robust, workmanlike color — the closest single match on Google Fonts for the compact sturdiness of ITC Cheltenham at text and subhead sizes.
- Imperial → Built specifically for body text on screen, with a large x-height and blunt, sturdy serifs; slightly warmer than Imperial but shares its compact, durable news-text character.
Display + body that work together
Headlines, written under pressure
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.
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.