Copperplate Gothic font
Copperplate Gothic is a display face of capitals with small glyphic serifs. It was designed by Frederic W. Goudy, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1901. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype. 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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Balthazar
Described as a “Copperplate Gothic like” serif · Google Fonts: Balthazar
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Jacques Francois Shadow
Google Fonts classes it with the transitional serifs
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Libertinus Serif Display
Google Fonts classes it with the transitional serifs
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Fonts like Calistoga
Not measured against Copperplate Gothic: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Copperplate Gothic or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Copperplate Gothic
- Designed by
- Frederic W. GoudySource: Wikipedia: Copperplate Gothic
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1901Source: Wikipedia: Copperplate Gothic
- Class
- Display face of capitals with small glyphic serifsSource: Wikipedia: Copperplate Gothic
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Copperplate GothicmacOS Tahoe: CopperplateSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Linotype
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.
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Questions about Copperplate Gothic
Is Copperplate Gothic free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it; Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Linotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Copperplate Gothic?
Copperplate Gothic was designed by Frederic W. Goudy, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1901.
Can I use Copperplate Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Copperplate Gothic is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Copperplate Gothic isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Balthazar, Patua One and Caprasimo 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 Copperplate Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured Copperplate Gothic: 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 Balthazar. Beside them, Patua One, Caprasimo and Jacques Francois Shadow are transitional serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Copperplate Gothic.