Sabon® font
Sabon is an old-style serif by Jan Tschichold, first issued by Stempel, Linotype and Monotype in 1967. 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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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Text02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cormorant Garamond03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like EB Garamond04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Fraunces05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Crimson Pro06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Cinzel
Not measured against Sabon: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Sabon or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Sabon
- Designed by
- Jan TschicholdSource: Wikipedia: Sabon
- First issued
- Stempel, Linotype and Monotype, 1967Source: Wikipedia: Sabon
- Class
- Old-style serifSource: Wikipedia: Sabon
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Sabon Next LTSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Linotype
- Trademark
- Sabon is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. 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.
Sabon® is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype Imaging Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Sabon
Is Sabon 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 Sabon?
Sabon was designed by Jan Tschichold, and first issued by Stempel, Linotype and Monotype in 1967.
Can I use Sabon in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Sabon is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Sabon isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB 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 Sabon?
FontKind hasn’t measured Sabon: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Crimson Text, Cormorant Garamond and EB Garamond are old-style serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Sabon.