The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Plus Jakarta Sans
A free alternative to Airbnb Cereal.
About Plus Jakarta Sans
Plus Jakarta Sans is Tokotype's 2020 geometric grotesque, built on near-circular bowls and a tall x-height with a full variable weight range. Its details carry more personality than the geometry suggests — a friendly single-story 'a', distinctive lowercase forms, and humanist warmth in the terminals that keeps headlines from reading as generic.
That 'a' curves almost identically to Circular's, and the family is the single closest free match for it, near enough to drop into brand and UI work. The balance of geometry and warmth sits very close to Airbnb Cereal, particularly in medium and semibold, and the idiosyncratic lowercase approximates the remix character of Spotify Mix better than Circular ever did. It occupies the same brief as TT Norms Pro for digital product design, while its rounded details and heavy display weights suit gg sans-style headings.
- Designer
- Tokotype
- Released
- 2020
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 5 paid font pages
Plus Jakarta Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Airbnb Cereal → Geometric structure with humanist warmth in the details — very close to Cereal's balance, especially in medium and semibold weights. Its slightly quirky letterforms keep headlines from feeling generic.
- Circular → The single closest free match — a geometric grotesque with near-circular bowls, a tall x-height, and a friendly single-story 'a' whose curve reads almost identically to Circular's. A full variable weight range makes it a near drop-in for brand and UI work.
- gg sans → A warm geometric sans whose rounded details and bold display weights suit gg sans-style headings and branding.
- Spotify Mix → Geometric-grotesque hybrid with genuine personality in its details — the closest free approximation of Mix's 'remix' character. Its distinctive lowercase forms give headlines the idiosyncratic edge Circular never had.
- TT Norms Pro → Shares TT Norms Pro's exact positioning — a modern geometric sans built for digital product work — with circular geometry, moderate contrast, and open letterforms. Its variable weights make it an easy drop-in for branding and web.
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Quiet type that does the work
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