Plantin® font
Plantin is an old-style serif by Frank Hinman Pierpont and Fritz Stelzer, first issued by Monotype in 1913. 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 Young Serif02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Text03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cormorant Garamond04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like EB Garamond05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fraunces06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Pro07by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cinzel
Not measured against Plantin: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Plantin or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Plantin
- Designed by
- Frank Hinman Pierpont and Fritz StelzerSource: Wikipedia: Plantin (typeface)
- First issued
- Monotype, 1913Source: Wikipedia: Plantin (typeface)
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Plantin (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
- Plantin 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.
Plantin® 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 Plantin
Is Plantin free?
No. Plantin is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Plantin?
Plantin was designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont and Fritz Stelzer, and first issued by Monotype in 1913.
Can I use Plantin in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Plantin. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Plantin isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Young Serif, Crimson Text and Cormorant Garamond 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 Plantin?
FontKind hasn’t measured Plantin: 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 Young Serif. Beside them, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Plantin.