The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Poiret One
A free alternative to Kabel.
About Poiret One
Poiret One is Denis Masharov's 2011 hairline geometric display face, and the most overtly art-deco typeface in this collection. Strokes are uniformly thin, the geometry is circular and precise, and the proportions carry the elongated elegance of Jazz Age poster lettering. There is one weight and it is very light; the design has no interest in mass.
Kabel has a deco side and a workhorse side, and Poiret One takes only the first — the Jazz Age glamour, without the utility. That makes it a narrow but effective free alternative: set it large for fashion editorial, event invitations, spirits packaging, and title sequences that want the period signal. Below headline size the hairlines vanish, and with a single thin weight there's no fallback, so it needs a sturdier companion for everything else on the page.
- Designer
- Denis Masharov
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Poiret One is also a free alternative to…
- Kabel → The most overtly art-deco face on this list — a hairline geometric display type that captures the Jazz Age glamour side of Kabel's personality. Strictly a headline and poster font, one thin weight.
- Neou → A single-weight hairline display geometric built on circular forms, closest in spirit to Neou Thin for fashion and editorial headlines. It is more decorative, with Art Deco details, and has no bold companion, so pair it with another face for heavy settings.
- Peristyle → A hairline Art Deco display face whose geometric caps and thin strokes recall the lightest end of Peristyle. It is round rather than condensed and only exists in one weight, so it suits short decorative lines where Peristyle Light might otherwise set a masthead.
- Dazzle Unicase → A thin decorative geometric face built from circles and straight lines, with an Art Deco flavor. It matches the lighter Unicase weights in display use, but it comes in one weight only and its lowercase follows normal proportions.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
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.
Modern · Editorial Poiret One + Source Serif 4
A grammar of empty space
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.
Editorial · Modern Playfair Display + Poiret One