Mistral® font
Mistral is a casual brush script by Roger Excoffon, first issued by Fonderie Olive in 1953. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype. 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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Dancing Script
Relates to Mistral’s lively bounce, its maker says · Google Fonts: Dancing Script
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useApache 2.0
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Mistral: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Mistral or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Mistral
- Designed by
- Roger ExcoffonSource: Wikipedia: Mistral (typeface)
- First issued
- Fonderie Olive, 1953Source: Wikipedia: Mistral (typeface)
- Class
- Casual brush scriptSource: Wikipedia: Mistral (typeface)
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: MistralSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Linotype
- Trademark
- Mistral is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. 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.
Mistral® is a trademark of Monotype GmbH. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype GmbH, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Mistral
Is Mistral free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Linotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Mistral?
Mistral was designed by Roger Excoffon, and first issued by Fonderie Olive in 1953.
Can I use Mistral in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Mistral is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Mistral isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Dancing Script, Permanent Marker and Shadows Into Light 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 Mistral?
FontKind hasn’t measured Mistral: 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 Dancing Script. Beside them, Permanent Marker, Shadows Into Light and Caveat are casual scripts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Mistral.