The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
General Sans
A free alternative to Neue Montreal.
About General Sans
- Designer
- Frode Helland
- Available at
- Fontshare →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
General Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Neue Montreal → A contemporary geometric-leaning grotesk with clean, open letterforms well suited to branding and identity work — the same use case Neue Montreal dominates. Slightly warmer and rounder, but a strong free-for-commercial substitute.
- Apercu → A rationalist neo-grotesque with an orderly-yet-lively temperament that lands close to Apercu's balance of neutrality and warmth. Its even, geometric proportions make it a dependable body-and-brand replacement, a shade more restrained in its quirks.
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.
Modern · Editorial General Sans + Source Serif 4
Letters that hold their nerve
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Editorial · Modern Bodoni Moda + General Sans