Archer® font
Archer is a humanist slab serif by Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler, first issued by Hoefler & Co. in 2001. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Hoefler&Co. 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 Archer: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Archer or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Archer
- Designed by
- Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan HoeflerSource: Wikipedia: Archer (typeface)
- First issued
- Hoefler & Co., 2001Source: Wikipedia: Archer (typeface)
- Class
- Humanist slab serifSource: Wikipedia: Archer (typeface)
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Hoefler&Co.
- Trademark
- Archer®, Hoefler&Co.
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.
Archer® is a trademark of Hoefler&Co. FontKind is not affiliated with Hoefler&Co., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Archer
Is Archer free?
No. Archer is a paid typeface, sold by Hoefler&Co. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Archer?
Archer was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler, and first issued by Hoefler & Co. in 2001.
Can I use Archer in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Archer. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Archer isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Andada Pro, Aleo and Rokkitt 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 Archer?
FontKind hasn’t measured Archer: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Andada Pro, Aleo and Rokkitt are humanist slab serifs and geometric slab serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Archer.