Geneva font
Geneva is a grotesque sans serif by Susan Kare, first issued by Apple in 1984. It comes with macOS and isn’t sold on its own. 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 Geneva here: only your own copy, if you have it
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Inter02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Roboto03by class
IBM Plex Sans
Google Fonts classes it with the neo-grotesque sans serifs
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like IBM Plex Sans04by class
Bricolage Grotesque
Google Fonts classes it with the neo-grotesque sans serifs
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Bricolage Grotesque05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Manrope06by class
Free for commercial useUbuntu Font Licence
Fonts like Ubuntu
Not measured against Geneva: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Geneva or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Geneva
- Designed by
- Susan KareSource: Wikipedia: Geneva (typeface)
- First issued
- Apple, 1984Source: Wikipedia: Geneva (typeface)
- Class
- Grotesque sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Geneva (typeface)
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: GenevaSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
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 Geneva
Is Geneva free?
Geneva comes with macOS and isn’t sold on its own: use it on a Mac, and a free font anywhere else. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Geneva?
Geneva was designed by Susan Kare, and first issued by Apple in 1984.
Can I use Geneva in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with Geneva; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Geneva isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Inter, Roboto and IBM Plex Sans 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 Geneva?
FontKind hasn’t measured Geneva: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Inter, Roboto and IBM Plex Sans are neo-grotesque sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Geneva.