The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Tenor Sans
A free alternative to Quiche Sans.
About Tenor Sans
Tenor Sans is a refined sans by Denis Masharov, released through Google Fonts in 2011, with gently modulated strokes that give its letterforms a quiet, drawn quality rather than a mechanical one. The proportions are wide and unhurried, the weight is light, and the modulation stays subtle enough that the face reads as a sans while carrying some of a serif's rhythm.
Those are fashion-house proportions, and they make it a workable free stand-in for Quiche Sans. The contrast is subtler than Quiche's, so the effect is less pronounced — but the same quiet luxury comes through in headlines, logotypes, and wordmarks set with open letterspacing. It suits editorial covers, beauty and fashion branding, and restaurant or hospitality identities, and works best above text size where the stroke modulation is actually visible.
- Designer
- Denis Masharov
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Tenor Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Quiche Sans → A refined sans with gently modulated strokes and fashion-house proportions — subtler contrast than Quiche Sans, but the same quiet luxury in headlines and logotypes.
- Sweet Sans → A single-weight sans with roman proportions, calm open counters and a lettering-like evenness that recalls engraved and inscribed capitals. It carries the same quiet, refined tone as Sweet Sans in its regular weights, with a full lowercase, though it lacks italics and the broad weight range.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Display · Editorial Tenor Sans + Source Serif 4
Quiet type that does the work
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Display · Editorial Tenor Sans + Lora