Iowan Old Style font
Iowan Old Style is an old-style serif by John Downer, first issued by Bitstream in 1991. It isn’t free: it is a commercial typeface. 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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About Iowan Old Style
- Designed by
- John DownerSource: Wikipedia: Iowan Old Style
- First issued
- Bitstream, 1991Source: Wikipedia: Iowan Old Style
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Iowan Old Style
- 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
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 Iowan Old Style
Is Iowan Old Style free?
No. Iowan Old Style is a paid typeface, licensed by its foundry. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Iowan Old Style?
Iowan Old Style was designed by John Downer, and first issued by Bitstream in 1991.
Can I use Iowan Old Style in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Iowan Old Style. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Iowan Old Style isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond 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 Iowan Old Style?
FontKind hasn’t measured Iowan Old Style: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Iowan Old Style.