Bell® font
Bell is a transitional serif by Richard Austin, first issued by the British Letter Foundry in 1788. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. 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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01by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Newsreader02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Libre Baskerville03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Noto Serif04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Spectral05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Baskervville06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Source Serif 4
Not measured against Bell: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Bell or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Bell
- Designed by
- Richard AustinSource: Wikipedia: Bell (typeface)
- First issued
- British Letter Foundry, 1788Source: Wikipedia: Bell (typeface)
- Class
- Transitional serifSource: Wikipedia: Bell (typeface)
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Bell MTSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Bell is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other 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.
Bell® is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Bell
Is Bell free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Bell?
Bell was designed by Richard Austin, and first issued by the British Letter Foundry in 1788.
Can I use Bell in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Bell is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Bell isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Newsreader, Libre Baskerville and Noto Serif 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 Bell?
FontKind hasn’t measured Bell: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Newsreader, Libre Baskerville and Noto Serif are transitional serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Bell.