The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Quattrocento Sans
A free alternative to Gill Sans.
About Quattrocento Sans
- Designer
- Pablo Impallari
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Quattrocento Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Gill Sans → Humanist sans with classical proportions and subtle stroke variation — closer to Gill's calligraphic-influenced construction than the more neutral humanists. A good pick for editorial body text in a Gill-adjacent register.
- Optima → Humanist sans with classical proportions and subtle stroke variation. Less flared than Optima but in the same humanist-sans tradition — a safer body-text option when Arsenal feels too display-oriented.
Display + body that work together
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.
Modern · Editorial Quattrocento Sans + Crimson Pro
Headlines, written under pressure
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 Bodoni Moda + Quattrocento Sans