Clarendon font
Clarendon is a Clarendon slab serif by Robert Besley, first issued by the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. 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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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Besley02by description
Free for commercial useApache 2.0
Fonts like Ultra03by description
Orelega One
Described as a whimsical Clarendon · Google Fonts: Orelega One
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Orelega One04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Montagu Slab05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Epunda Slab
Not measured against Clarendon: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Clarendon or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Clarendon
- Designed by
- Robert BesleySource: Wikipedia: Clarendon (typeface)
- First issued
- Fann Street Foundry, 1845Source: Wikipedia: Clarendon (typeface)
- Class
- Clarendon slab serifSource: Wikipedia: Clarendon (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
- Linotype
- Trademark
- Clarendon is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. 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.
Clarendon® is a trademark of Monotype GmbH. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype GmbH, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Clarendon
Is Clarendon free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Clarendon are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid, sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Clarendon?
Clarendon was designed by Robert Besley, and first issued by the Fann Street Foundry in 1845.
Can I use Clarendon in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Clarendon. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Clarendon isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Besley, Ultra and Orelega One 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 Clarendon?
FontKind hasn’t measured Clarendon: 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 Besley, Ultra and Orelega One. Beside them, Montagu Slab and Epunda Slab are Clarendon slab serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Clarendon.