Caslon font
Caslon is an old-style serif by William Caslon, from the 1720s. It comes with macOS; 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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Libre Caslon Text
A Caslon revival, after 1950s hand lettering · Google Fonts: Libre Caslon Text
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Libre Caslon Text02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Text03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cormorant Garamond04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like EB Garamond05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Pro07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Caslon: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Caslon or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Caslon
- Designed by
- William CaslonSource: Wikipedia: Caslon
- First issued
- the 1720sSource: Wikipedia: Caslon
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Caslon
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: Big CaslonSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Adobe Fonts, as Adobe Caslon and Big Caslon
- Trademark
- Caslon 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.
Caslon™ 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 Caslon
Is Caslon free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Caslon are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Caslon?
Caslon was designed by William Caslon, and first issued in the 1720s.
Can I use Caslon in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with Caslon; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Caslon isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Libre Caslon Text, Crimson Text and Cormorant 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 Caslon?
FontKind hasn’t measured Caslon: 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 Libre Caslon Text. Beside them, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Caslon.