Cheltenham font
Cheltenham is an old-style serif by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, first issued by American Type Founders in 1903. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. 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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Domine
Its description names Cheltenham among its models · Google Fonts: Domine
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Domine02by 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
Fonts like Fraunces06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Pro07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Cheltenham: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Cheltenham or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Cheltenham
- Designed by
- Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Ingalls KimballSource: Wikipedia: Cheltenham (typeface)
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1903Source: Wikipedia: Cheltenham (typeface)
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Cheltenham (typeface)
- 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
- ITC
- Trademark
- ITC Cheltenham is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which 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.
ITC Cheltenham® is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype ITC Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Cheltenham
Is Cheltenham free?
No. Cheltenham is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Cheltenham?
Cheltenham was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1903.
Can I use Cheltenham in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Cheltenham. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Cheltenham isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Domine, 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 Cheltenham?
FontKind hasn’t measured Cheltenham: 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 Domine. Beside them, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Cheltenham.