Whitney® font
Whitney is a humanist sans serif by Tobias Frere-Jones, first issued by Hoefler & Co. in 2004. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Hoefler&Co. 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 Whitney: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Whitney or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Whitney
- Designed by
- Tobias Frere-JonesSource: Wikipedia: Whitney (typeface)
- First issued
- Hoefler & Co., 2004Source: Wikipedia: Whitney (typeface)
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Whitney (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
- Hoefler&Co.
- Trademark
- Whitney®, Hoefler&Co.
- Also
- It was drawn for the Whitney Museum of American Art.Source: Wikipedia: Whitney (typeface)
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Whitney® is a trademark of Hoefler&Co. FontKind is not affiliated with Hoefler&Co., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Whitney
Is Whitney free?
No. Whitney is a paid typeface, sold by Hoefler&Co. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Whitney?
Whitney was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, and first issued by Hoefler & Co. in 2004.
Can I use Whitney in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Whitney. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Whitney 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 Whitney?
FontKind hasn’t measured Whitney: 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 Whitney.