Monotype Corsiva font
Monotype Corsiva is an italic in the manner of the early Italian cursives. It was designed by Patricia Saunders, and issued by Monotype. Microsoft 365 includes it 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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About Monotype Corsiva
- Designed by
- Patricia SaundersSource: Microsoft: font list
- First issued
- MonotypeSource: Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Italic in the manner of the early Italian cursives
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Monotype CorsivaSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Corsiva 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.
Corsiva® 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 Monotype Corsiva
Is Monotype Corsiva 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 Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Monotype Corsiva?
Monotype Corsiva was designed by Patricia Saunders, and issued by Monotype.
Can I use Monotype Corsiva in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Monotype Corsiva is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Monotype Corsiva isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Tangerine, Parisienne and Cookie 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 Monotype Corsiva?
FontKind hasn’t measured Monotype Corsiva: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Tangerine, Parisienne and Cookie are formal scripts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Monotype Corsiva.