The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Figtree
A free alternative to Aeonik Soft.
About Figtree
Figtree is a geometric-humanist sans drawn by Erik Kennedy in 2022 for web and mobile interfaces, with the explicit brief of being friendly without turning cutesy. Rounded terminals, a single-story 'a', clean geometric curves, and a variable weight axis tuned for screens give it a compact, contemporary texture in buttons, labels, and body copy.
That brief is the one Airbnb Cereal answered, and Figtree sits close to Cereal, gg sans, and Circular in product UI. It reads a little lighter than Gotham's stockier design, tracks Amazon Ember in body text, and lands near Larsseit's balance of warmth and neutrality. Against Myriad it is the more contemporary option, which suits marketing pages that want the same friendliness with a fresher edge. At large sizes it approaches SF Pro Display's roundness, which makes it a headline substitute there rather than a text one.
- Designer
- Erik Kennedy
- Released
- 2022
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Figtree is also a free alternative to…
- Aeonik Soft → A friendly geometric sans with subtly softened joins and a clean, low-contrast skeleton, so it lands close to Aeonik Soft's balance of structure and warmth. It is more openly geometric and lacks the Cyrillic and Greek coverage, but across the regular to bold range the overall texture is a near match.
- Airbnb Cereal → Drawn explicitly to be friendly without being cutesy — the same brief Cereal answered for Airbnb. Compact, modern, and tuned for interfaces.
- Amazon Ember → A clean geometric-humanist hybrid designed for interfaces; its friendly proportions and slightly rounded feel sit very close to Ember in body text.
- Circular → A clean, friendly geometric sans that deliberately shares DNA with premium fonts like Circular, with rounded terminals and a warm, approachable single-story 'a'. Purpose-built for web and mobile app interfaces.
- gg sans → Friendly, slightly geometric, and interface-first — very close to gg sans in body copy and buttons.
- Gotham → Geometric sans with similar letterform characteristics to Gotham and a slightly lighter overall appearance than Gotham's stockier design. Variable weight axis tuned for screens.
- GT Walsheim → A friendly geometric sans with soft, slightly rounded forms that echo Walsheim's approachable feel. Screen-tuned and comfortable at text sizes where Poppins and Montserrat get tight, so it's the better pick for body copy and UI under a Walsheim-style heading.
- Homizio → A friendly geometric with the same Proxima Nova lineage Homizio draws on: compact rounds, open apertures and low contrast tuned for screens. Figtree is a bit tighter and more regular in rhythm, and ships as a variable font with italics, so it covers more jobs than the six static Homizio weights.
- Larsseit → A clean-yet-friendly geometric sans built for web and app UI — the exact niche Larsseit occupies. Its rounded geometric forms echo Larsseit's warmth while staying neutral enough for branding.
- Myriad → A modern humanist sans with clean, geometric-leaning curves. It's a little more contemporary than Myriad, which makes it a good pick for product UI and marketing pages where you want the same friendliness with a fresher edge.
- SF Pro → Drawn by a UI designer explicitly for interfaces — rounded, geometric-leaning, closer to SF Pro Display's warmth at large sizes than to SF Text. Best as a headline substitute.
- Spotify Mix → Friendly geometric sans drawn for interfaces, with a full variable weight range for Wrapped-style bold headlines. Slightly warmer and more casual than DM Sans, which brings it closer to Mix's playfulness.
- Shorai Sans → A clean geometric grotesque with a slightly humanist warmth, giving the simplified, intellectual look Shorai Sans aims for in Latin. Its proportions are a touch wider and its weights top out lighter than Shorai's Heavy, but the overall colour and restraint match well for interface and brand work.
- Acherus Feral → A friendly geometric sans with clean, squared-off stroke ends and nine weights with italics, covering the same text-to-display range. It stays warmer and more rounded in the bowls than Acherus Feral, so it reads softer in paragraphs while keeping the same compact, even rhythm in UI and branding.
- Crossten Soft → A friendly geometric sans with circular bowls, open apertures and slightly softened joins, built for product and brand text. It matches Crossten Soft's approachable modern geometry most directly, though its terminals stay squared rather than rounded and its nine weights lack a black cut.
- TT Commons Pro → A friendly geometric sans with similar proportions and closed terminals, tuned for UI and marketing pages. It reads a little softer and more approachable than TT Commons Pro, with slightly larger apertures, but it covers the same everyday interface and branding jobs in nine weights with italics.
- TT Firs Text → A clean geometric sans made for screens and body text, with the same friendly, softened circles and even texture as TT Firs Text. It is slightly rounder and less Nordic in mood, but it is the closest free match for long-form reading at small sizes.
Display + body that work together
Letters that hold their nerve
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 Figtree + Source Serif 4
Pages that earn the read
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 + Figtree