American Typewriter font
American Typewriter is a slab serif after the typewriter. It was designed by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan, and first issued by ITC in 1974. It comes with macOS; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Not measured against American Typewriter: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names American Typewriter or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About American Typewriter
- Designed by
- Joel Kaden and Tony StanSource: Wikipedia: American Typewriter
- First issued
- ITC, 1974Source: Wikipedia: American Typewriter
- Class
- Slab serif after the typewriterSource: Wikipedia: American Typewriter
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: American TypewriterSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- ITC
- Trademark
- ITC American Typewriter is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
ITC American Typewriter™ is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype ITC Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about American Typewriter
Is American Typewriter free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by ITC. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed American Typewriter?
American Typewriter was designed by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan, and first issued by ITC in 1974.
Can I use American Typewriter in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with American Typewriter; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and American Typewriter isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Besley, Montagu Slab and Epunda Slab are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to American Typewriter?
FontKind hasn’t measured American Typewriter: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Besley, Montagu Slab and Epunda Slab are Clarendon slab serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to American Typewriter.