FontKind / A field guide to type
Every font
has a kind.
2,035 free fonts, measured letter by letter. Find one like a font you love, check what its licence allows, write your name in it.
Could you be a designer? 12 rounds, scored out of 100 Play round 101 / Choose a direction
What brought
you here?
Six jobs people bring to FontKind, each with pages of its own.
- 01 / 4 alphabets · 182 letters
Learn letters
Cursive, bubble, graffiti and Old English: a page for every letter, and worksheets to print.
- 02 / 18 styles · 268 free fonts
Style your text
Your name in tattoo, fancy, pixel or cursive letters, saved as a PNG for Canva or Cricut.
- 03 / 22 films, games and brands
Famous fonts
What the Disney, Minecraft or Harry Potter lettering really is, and the free fonts closest to it.
- 04 / 2,035 measured · 151 paid and system fonts
Similar fonts
Like Roboto: Spline Sans · 81Fonts like one you love, and free alternatives to Helvetica, Futura or Arial.
- 05 / 5 kinds · 15 styles
All 2,035 free fonts
Sans serif, serif, display, handwriting and monospace, every one free for commercial use.
- 06 / 6,276,350 home pages counted
Font pairing
Check a pair · 13,778 sites · 4.3× chanceCheck how often any two fonts are used together, and see the pairs sites choose far beyond chance.
02 / The balance test
Could you be
a designer?
Designers spend years learning to see what is off in a letter. Some people see it straight away. Try the first round here; eleven more wait in the test.
Round 01 / Optical space
Make the word
feel even.
Move the O until the space between the letters feels balanced.
The white area is not the same as the felt space.
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A playable balance test
Make a move, then check it: the test opens on your answer.
Round 01 here · 11 more in the test
03 / Styles and alphabets
Write it
in style.
Set a name in cursive, bubble or gothic letters and save it as a picture, or learn an alphabet letter by letter and print it.
A / Style your text
18 styles · 268 free fonts · PNG for Canva or Cricut
B / Learn letters
Each letter on its own page · outlines to colour
04 / Similar, with a reason
Point at what
you like.
Similarity is more useful when you can name the detail. Start with one letter, a free relative, or a paid font you know.
A / The letter
The leg of an R can give a family away: its angle, join and ending all matter.
Find fonts by their lettersB / Free kin
- Shared: the same widths and heights
- Check: d, J, and b
- Use: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Measured from both fonts’ outlines. Arimo replaces Arial without moving a line.
Free alternatives to ArialC / Paid fonts, free alternatives
- Helvetica→ArimoBy its description
- Futura→JostBy its description
- Gotham→MontserratSame class
- Proxima Nova→MontserratSame class
- Avenir→SenBy its description
Not measured: FontKind has no copy of these. Each free font stands beside one by its own description or by class.
All 151 paid and system fonts05 / Learn by looking
The details
are the story.
A little vocabulary makes each comparison more exact. Touch the labels to inspect the form.
Fig. 02 / Anatomy of g
Read the letter
The ear.
That small upper stroke gives a double-storey g much of its personality.
Adjust the space between a particular pair.
Change the rhythm of an entire line.
Draw for the scale the letters will actually live at.
FontKind / Free first
Every font here is free for commercial use, and no ranking is for sale.