Myriad® font
Myriad is a humanist sans serif by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly, first issued by Adobe in 1992. It isn’t free: it is a commercial typeface. Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use. 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 Lato02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fira Sans03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Source Sans 304by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Yanone Kaffeesatz05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Merriweather Sans06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Signika
Not measured against Myriad: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Myriad or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Myriad
- Designed by
- Robert Slimbach and Carol TwomblySource: Wikipedia: Myriad (typeface)
- First issued
- Adobe, 1992Source: Wikipedia: Myriad (typeface)
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Myriad (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
- Licence
- Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use.
- Trademark
- Myriad is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain 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.
Myriad® is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. FontKind is not affiliated with Adobe Systems Incorporated, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Myriad
Is Myriad free?
No. Myriad is a paid typeface, licensed by its foundry. Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Myriad?
Myriad was designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly, and first issued by Adobe in 1992.
Can I use Myriad in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Myriad. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Myriad isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 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 Myriad?
FontKind hasn’t measured Myriad: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Myriad.