The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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TT Lakes
TypeType released TT Lakes in 2016, designed by Ivan Gladkikh as the foundry's first superfamily: 54 styles across Lakes, Lakes Condensed and Lakes Compressed. The idea came from a railway sign in Priozersk, the former Finnish town of Käkisalmi, and the family was built to honour Finnish functionalist design. It is a plain, technological geometric sans with wide language support and a deep OpenType feature set. In 2020 TypeType redesigned and expanded it as TT Lakes Neue, now 91 styles plus a variable font. These free typefaces work the same geometric, multi-width register without the license fee.
The closest font to TT LakesThe 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
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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.
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Common questions about TT Lakes alternatives
- Is TT Lakes free?
- No — TT Lakes is a commercial typeface from TypeType. TT Lakes and TT Lakes Neue are commercial fonts licensed through TypeType and resellers such as MyFonts and Fontspring; the foundry offers a free trial version for testing. The closest free alternative is Barlow, available on Google Fonts.
- What font is similar to TT Lakes?
- Barlow is the closest free match. A slightly rounded, low-contrast grotesk drawn from Californian signage and licence plates, shipped in regular, semi-condensed and condensed widths. The closest free match for TT Lakes' sign-painting origins and its three-width system, though Barlow is a touch softer and more American than the Finnish functionalist tone of the original.
- Can I use Barlow in commercial projects?
- Yes — Barlow 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.