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Free Cheese

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 RegularThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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

Free Cheese is a free display font by GGBotNet, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 554 display faces on FontKind, Free Cheese has an x-height taller than 74%, is wider than 82% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 85%. Its thickest strokes are 1.2 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

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01 / Light table

Laid on top of Piedra

Free Cheese on one light table with its two closest fonts, Piedra (81 out of 100) and Freckle Face (81). Piedra is 26% narrower and 7% heavier; Freckle Face is 24% narrower and 10% lighter, with an x-height 7% shorter.

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Ink shared with Free CheesePiedra…

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.

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02 / Letters

The Free Cheese 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.

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03 / Styles

Free Cheese, upright and italic

1 weight (400), with italics

400 Regular, with its italic

04 / Facts

Who made Free Cheese, and can you use it?

Designer: GGBotNet
Kind: Display
Styles: 1 weight (400), with italics
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin
Licence: CC0 1.0, public domain

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes. No conditions: it is in the public domain.
Sharing the files: Yes. No conditions, not even a credit.

Free Cheese is under the CC0 1.0, public domain. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Free Cheese comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Free Cheese, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Free Cheese under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Free Cheese on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Free Cheese, measured

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

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

x-height: 58.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 65.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.89lowercase against capitals
Width: 62.5% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 69%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.20 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among display faces

Ranked against all 554 display faces on FontKind

x-heightLarger than 74% of display faces
WidthWider than 82% of display faces
InkDarker than 85% of display faces
ContrastNear the middle of display faces

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Free Cheese

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Free Cheese →Compare side by side →Get Free Cheese on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Free Cheese without a jump

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

Fallback while it loads

Until Free Cheese loads, this sets Arial in its place at 124.6% of its size, so running text keeps Free Cheese’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Free Cheese Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 124.65%;
  ascent-override: 74.94%;
  descent-override: 16.41%;
  line-gap-override: 0.94%;
}

font-family: 'Free Cheese', 'Free Cheese Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Free Cheese

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

Is Free Cheese free for commercial use?

Yes, with no conditions at all: Free Cheese is in the public domain, under CC0 1.0 . Use it, change it and pass it on, commercially too, without even a credit.

How do I download and install Free Cheese?

Free Cheese comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its Free Cheese/TrueType (.ttf) folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is Free Cheese in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Free Cheese comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Free Cheese have?

Free Cheese comes in one weight, Regular (400), with an italic. Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

Who designed Free Cheese?

Free Cheese was designed by GGBotNet. GGBotNet also made Alpha Prota, Blaec, Crayon Libre and 16 more on FontKind.

What fonts are similar to Free Cheese?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Piedra (81), Freckle Face (81) and Darumadrop One (80), out of 100. Next to Free Cheese, Piedra is 26% narrower and 7% heavier. See all 100 fonts like Free Cheese.