Bembo® font
Bembo is an old-style serif by Francesco Griffo, first issued by Monotype in 1929. It isn’t free: 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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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Text02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cormorant Garamond03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like EB Garamond04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fraunces05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Pro06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cinzel
Not measured against Bembo: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Bembo or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Bembo
- Designed by
- Francesco GriffoSource: Wikipedia: Bembo
- First issued
- Monotype, 1929Source: Wikipedia: Bembo
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Bembo
- 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
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Bembo 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
- Also
- Monotype’s 1929 revival follows a type Francesco Griffo cut in 1495 for a Venetian printer.Source: Wikipedia: Bembo
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.
Bembo® 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 Bembo
Is Bembo free?
No. Bembo is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Bembo?
Bembo was designed by Francesco Griffo, and first issued by Monotype in 1929.
Can I use Bembo in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Bembo. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Bembo isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond 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 Bembo?
FontKind hasn’t measured Bembo: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Bembo.