Sans serif · Óliver Lalan

Doto

Q: Is Doto free for commercial use?

Yes. Doto is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

More axes (1)More axes (1)

Roundness0, default

Find the font. Find its kind.

CSSfont-family: 'Doto', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

01 / Light table

Laid on top of DotMatrix Expanded

Doto on one light table with its two closest fonts, DotMatrix Expanded (72 out of 100) and VT323 (71). DotMatrix Expanded is 46% heavier and 19% wider, with an x-height 5% taller; VT323 is 291% heavier and 33% narrower, with an x-height 16% shorter.

Layout

Letters

Show

Size auto

Ink shared with DotoDotMatrix Expanded…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

Open in the compare tool →

02 / Letters

The Doto alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

&
?
!
@
%
(
)

With this font

Write your ownPixel font generator →Your words in Doto and 24 more pixel fonts. Download any of them as a PNG for Canva or an SVG for Cricut.

03 / Weights

Doto in 9 weights

9 weights, 100–900 · variable from 100 to 900

Variable weight, 100 to 900

100 Thin
200 Extra light
300 Light
400 Regular
500 Medium
600 Semibold
700 Bold
800 Extra bold
900 Black

04 / Facts

Who made Doto, and can you use it?

Designer: Óliver Lalan
Kind: Sans serif
Styles: 9 weights, 100–900
Variable axes: ROND 0–100, Weight 100–900
On Google Fonts since: 2024
Character sets: latin, latin-ext
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted or loaded from Google Fonts.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Doto is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Doto, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Doto under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Doto on Google Fonts

05 / Measurements

Doto, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Doto. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 47.6% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 67.6% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.70lowercase against capitals
Width: 60.0% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 12%letter box filled

How we measure →

Where it stands among sans serifs

Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind

x-heightSmaller than 85% of sans serifs
WidthWider than 90% of sans serifs
InkLighter than 100% of sans serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Doto

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Doto →Compare side by side →Get Doto on Google Fonts

07 / Swap

Swap Doto without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Doto loads, this sets Arial in its place at 134.3% of its size, so running text keeps Doto’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Doto Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 134.32%;
  ascent-override: 70.73%;
  descent-override: 18.61%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Doto', 'Doto Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Doto

Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list

Is Doto free for commercial use?

Yes. Doto is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Doto?

FontKind doesn’t host Doto’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds one variable file for every style, and a static folder with a file per style: install one set or the other, not both. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.

Is Doto in Microsoft Word?

Not until you install it: Doto isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. On Windows, its weights beyond Regular and Bold show as fonts of their own, such as Doto Thin and Doto Black. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Is Doto in Google Docs?

Most likely. Search for Doto under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Is Doto in Figma?

Yes: Doto is in Figma’s font menu with all nine weights, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

How many weights does Doto have?

Doto comes in nine weights, from Thin (100) to Black (900). It is a variable font: it takes any weight from 100 to 900, plus one axis of its own.

Who designed Doto?

Doto was designed by Óliver Lalan. It has been on Google Fonts since November 2024.

What fonts are similar to Doto?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are DotMatrix Expanded (72), VT323 (71) and DotMatrix (66), out of 100. Next to Doto, DotMatrix Expanded is 46% heavier and 19% wider, with an x-height 5% taller. See all 100 fonts like Doto.