Bodoni font
Bodoni is a Didone serif by Giambattista Bodoni, from the 1790s. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. 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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Bodoni Moda
A Bodoni family by its own description · Google Fonts: Bodoni Moda
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Libre Bodoni
Based on Morris Fuller Benton’s Bodoni · Google Fonts: Libre Bodoni
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Oranienbaum
Built on classic Antiquas such as Bodoni · Google Fonts: Oranienbaum
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Oranienbaum04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Playfair Display05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Imbue
Not measured against Bodoni: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Bodoni or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Bodoni
- Designed by
- Giambattista BodoniSource: Wikipedia: Bodoni
- First issued
- the 1790sSource: Wikipedia: Bodoni
- Class
- Didone serifSource: Wikipedia: Bodoni
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Bodoni MTmacOS Tahoe: Bodoni 72Source: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Linotype, as Bauer Bodoni
- Trademark
- Bodoni is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation 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.
Bodoni™ 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 Bodoni
Is Bodoni free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Bodoni are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it; Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Bodoni?
Bodoni was designed by Giambattista Bodoni, and first issued in the 1790s.
Can I use Bodoni in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Bodoni is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Bodoni isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Bodoni Moda, Libre Bodoni and Oranienbaum 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 Bodoni?
FontKind hasn’t measured Bodoni: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Bodoni Moda, Libre Bodoni and Oranienbaum. Beside them, Playfair Display and Imbue are Didone serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Bodoni.