Centaur® font
Centaur is a Venetian old-style serif by Bruce Rogers, 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
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Centaur: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Centaur or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Centaur
- Designed by
- Bruce RogersSource: Wikipedia: Centaur (typeface) , Microsoft: font list
- First issued
- Monotype, 1929Source: Wikipedia: Centaur (typeface) , Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Venetian old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Centaur (typeface) , Microsoft: font list
- 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
- Centaur 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.
Centaur® 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 Centaur
Is Centaur free?
No. Centaur is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Centaur?
Centaur was designed by Bruce Rogers, and first issued by Monotype in 1929.
Can I use Centaur in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Centaur. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Centaur isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Alegreya, Neuton and UNAL Ancizar 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 Centaur?
FontKind hasn’t measured Centaur: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Alegreya, Neuton and UNAL Ancizar Serif are Venetian serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Centaur.