Joanna® font
Joanna is a serif by Eric Gill, first issued by Monotype in 1958. It isn’t free: 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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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Andada Pro02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Aleo03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Epunda Slab04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Solway05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Enriqueta06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like BioRhyme Expanded
Not measured against Joanna: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Joanna or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Joanna
- Designed by
- Eric GillSource: Wikipedia: Joanna (typeface)
- First issued
- Monotype, 1958Source: Wikipedia: Joanna (typeface)
- Class
- SerifSource: Wikipedia: Joanna (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
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Joanna 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
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.
Joanna® 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 Joanna
Is Joanna free?
No. Joanna is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Joanna?
Joanna was designed by Eric Gill, and first issued by Monotype in 1958.
Can I use Joanna in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Joanna. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Joanna isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Andada Pro, Aleo and Epunda Slab 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 Joanna?
FontKind hasn’t measured Joanna: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Andada Pro, Aleo and Epunda Slab are humanist slab serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Joanna.