The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Red Hat Text
A free alternative to Futura.
About Red Hat Text
Red Hat Text is Red Hat's open-source corporate sans, drawn by MCKL and released in 2019 with a variable weight axis tuned specifically for body copy. The base construction is geometric, warmed by subtle humanist adjustments — the geometry loosened just enough that words hold together across a paragraph instead of reading as a row of circles and straight lines.
That is the practical argument for it as a Futura alternative. Futura's own geometry is unforgiving at length, and Red Hat Text keeps the voice while fixing the behavior: the same clean modernist tone, in a face that can actually carry long-form text. Use it where Futura is wanted below headline size — interfaces, documentation, editorial body copy. For the headlines themselves, Red Hat Display sits alongside it in the same family.
- Designer
- MCKL
- Released
- 2019
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 1 paid font page
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