Futura® font
Futura is a geometric sans serif by Paul Renner, first issued by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1927. It comes with macOS; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Neufville Digital, as Futura ND. 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 Futura here: only your own copy, if you have it
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01by description
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Jost02by description
Plus Jakarta Sans
Its description names Futura among its models · Google Fonts: Plus Jakarta Sans
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Plus Jakarta Sans03by description
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Sen04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Montserrat05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like DM Sans06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Figtree07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Outfit08by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Josefin Sans09by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Quicksand
Not measured against Futura: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Futura or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Futura
- Designed by
- Paul RennerSource: Wikipedia: Futura (typeface)
- First issued
- Bauer Type Foundry, 1927Source: Wikipedia: Futura (typeface)
- Class
- Geometric sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Futura (typeface)
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: FuturaSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Neufville Digital, as Futura ND
- Trademark
- Futura is a registered trademark of BauerTypes SL.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.
Futura® is a trademark of BauerTypes SL. FontKind is not affiliated with BauerTypes SL, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Futura
Is Futura free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Neufville Digital, as Futura ND. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Futura?
Futura was designed by Paul Renner, and first issued by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1927.
Can I use Futura in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with Futura; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Futura isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Jost, Plus Jakarta Sans and Sen 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 Futura?
FontKind hasn’t measured Futura: 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 Jost, Plus Jakarta Sans and Sen. Beside them, Montserrat, DM Sans and Figtree are geometric sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Futura.