Interstate font
Interstate is a sans serif after American highway signs. It was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, and first issued by The Font Bureau in 1993. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Frere-Jones Type and Adobe Fonts. 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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Overpass
An interpretation of Highway Gothic, Interstate’s model · Google Fonts: Overpass
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Overpass02by description
Red Hat Display
Inspired by Highway Gothic and other American sans serifs · Google Fonts: Red Hat Display
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Oswald04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Public Sans05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Karla06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Libre Franklin07by class
Schibsted Grotesk
Google Fonts classes it with the grotesque sans serifs
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Schibsted Grotesk08by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Rethink Sans
Not measured against Interstate: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Interstate or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Interstate
- Designed by
- Tobias Frere-JonesSource: Wikipedia: Interstate (typeface)
- First issued
- The Font Bureau, 1993Source: Wikipedia: Interstate (typeface)
- Class
- Sans serif after American highway signsSource: Wikipedia: Interstate (typeface)
- 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
- Frere-Jones TypeAdobe Fonts
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 Interstate
Is Interstate free?
No. Interstate is a paid typeface, sold by Frere-Jones Type and Adobe Fonts. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Interstate?
Interstate was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, and first issued by The Font Bureau in 1993.
Can I use Interstate in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Interstate. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Interstate isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Overpass, Red Hat Display and Oswald 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 Interstate?
FontKind hasn’t measured Interstate: 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 Overpass and Red Hat Display. Beside them, Oswald, Public Sans and Karla are grotesque sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Interstate.