Old English Text MT font
Old English Text MT is a blackletter from Monotype. 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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Not measured against Old English Text MT: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Old English Text MT or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Old English Text MT
- First issued
- MonotypeSource: Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Blackletter
- 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
- Also
- It goes back to Caslon Black, a blackletter the Caslon foundry cast around 1760.
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 Old English Text MT
Is Old English Text MT free?
No. Old English Text MT is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who made Old English Text MT?
Old English Text MT was issued by Monotype.
Can I use Old English Text MT in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Old English Text MT. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Old English Text MT isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Germania One, Pirata One and UnifrakturMaguntia 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 Old English Text MT?
FontKind hasn’t measured Old English Text MT: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Germania One, Pirata One and UnifrakturMaguntia are blackletters in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Old English Text MT.