FF Meta font
FF Meta is a humanist sans serif by Erik Spiekermann, first issued by FontFont in 1991. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by FontFont. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
No picture of FF Meta here: only your own copy, if you have it
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Lato02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fira Sans03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Source Sans 304by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Yanone Kaffeesatz05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Merriweather Sans06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Signika
Not measured against FF Meta: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names FF Meta or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About FF Meta
- Designed by
- Erik SpiekermannSource: Wikipedia: FF Meta
- First issued
- FontFont, 1991Source: Wikipedia: FF Meta
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: FF Meta
- 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
- FontFont
- Also
- It grew out of an unused commission for the German post office, the Deutsche Bundespost.Source: Wikipedia: FF Meta
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 FF Meta
Is FF Meta free?
No. FF Meta is a paid typeface, sold by FontFont. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed FF Meta?
FF Meta was designed by Erik Spiekermann, and first issued by FontFont in 1991.
Can I use FF Meta in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with FF Meta. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and FF Meta isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 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 FF Meta?
FontKind hasn’t measured FF Meta: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to FF Meta.