Gill Sans® font
Gill Sans is a humanist sans serif by Eric Gill, first issued by Monotype in 1928. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. 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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Cabin
Inspired by Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s typefaces · Google Fonts: Cabin
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cabin02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Lato03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fira Sans04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Source Sans 305by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Yanone Kaffeesatz06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Merriweather Sans07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Gill Sans: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Gill Sans or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Gill Sans
- Designed by
- Eric GillSource: Wikipedia: Gill Sans
- First issued
- Monotype, 1928Source: Wikipedia: Gill Sans
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Gill Sans
- Comes with
- Windows 11, as an optional font: Gill Sans NovaMicrosoft 365, as a cloud font: Gill Sans MT, Gill Sans NovamacOS Tahoe: Gill SansSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Gill Sans is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- It is based on Edward Johnston’s 1916 lettering for the London Underground.Source: Wikipedia: Gill Sans
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.
Gill Sans® is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Gill Sans
Is Gill Sans 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 Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Gill Sans?
Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill, and first issued by Monotype in 1928.
Can I use Gill Sans in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Gill Sans is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Gill Sans isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Cabin, Lato and Fira 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 Gill Sans?
FontKind hasn’t measured Gill Sans: 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 Cabin. Beside them, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Gill Sans.