The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Poppins
A free alternative to Avenir.
About Poppins
- Designer
- Indian Type Foundry
- Released
- 2014
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Poppins is also a free alternative to…
- Avenir → Modern geometric sans-serif tuned for screens. Closer to Avenir's geometric purity than Lato or Nunito, with a comprehensive weight range and tight proportions — the contemporary geometric humanist option.
- Brandon Grotesque → Poppins shares Brandon's geometric construction and rounded warmth, with a nine-weight range that covers Thin to Black. The closest free match across designer forums.
Display + body that work together
Quiet type that does the work
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.
Modern · Editorial Poppins + Crimson Pro
A grammar of empty space
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.