The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Arsenica
Zetafonts released Arsenica in 2021, designed by Francesco Canovaro with Mario De Libero, Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini at the Florence foundry. It draws on Italian poster design from the start of the twentieth century, when lettering and illustration were still the same craft, and it comes in four sub-families: the low-contrast, wide Arsenica Antiqua, the high-contrast Arsenica Display, a cleaner Arsenica Alternate, and Arsenica Text for long copy. Forty-three styles cover Latin and Cyrillic. The free download on DaFont is personal use only, so these free serifs work the same warm, quirky old-style register without the licence fee.
The closest font to ArsenicaThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Display + body that work together
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.
Pages that earn the read
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.
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Common questions about Arsenica alternatives
- Is Arsenica free?
- No — Arsenica is a commercial typeface from Zetafonts. Commercial font sold by Zetafonts, MyFonts and Fontspring; the DaFont download is a trial for personal, non-commercial use only. The closest free alternative is Fraunces, available on Google Fonts.
- What font is similar to Arsenica?
- Fraunces is the closest free match. A soft, deliberately wonky old-style display serif built on an optical-size axis, so it shifts from quirky headline forms to calmer text sizes much as Arsenica moves from Antiqua to Text. Its ball terminals and gooey curves read friendlier and more American than Arsenica's Italian poster roots.
- Can I use Fraunces in commercial projects?
- Yes — Fraunces is published under a free license on Google Fonts and can be used in commercial work. Confirm the license text at the source before shipping.