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Fonts similar to Violet Sans

The fonts most like Violet Sans are Mozilla Text (77 out of 100), Onest (74) and BDO Grotesk (74), then 97 more free fonts, compared letter by letter. Measured, the twelve closest have x-heights of 49–56% of the em (Violet Sans’s is 48%) and lowercase letters 48–60% of the em wide (53%), and all twelve are sans serifs too. Where they differ, most have a taller x-height (eleven of twelve).

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  1. 77match · #1

    Mozilla Text

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    x-height 11% taller · 19% lighter · 6% wider

    Differs most from Violet Sans in I, j, and i

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  2. 74match · #2

    Onest

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    x-height 10% taller · 10% lighter

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, y, and O

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  3. 74match · #3

    BDO Grotesk

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    x-height 18% taller · 5% wider

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, o, and j

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  4. 74match · #4

    Archivo

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    x-height 10% taller · 6% narrower · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, g, and i

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  5. 74match · #5

    Pliant

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    x-height 8% taller · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, O, and a

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  6. 74match · #6

    Estedad

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    19% lighter · more stroke contrast

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, G, and 7

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  7. 74match · #7

    Miedinger

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    x-height 9% taller · 8% narrower

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, O, and Q

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  8. 73match · #8

    Miranda Sans

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    x-height 8% taller · 8% lighter

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, Q, and l

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  9. 73match · #9

    Switzer

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    x-height 11% taller · 8% lighter · 3% narrower

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, O, and 7

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  10. 73match · #10

    Ranade

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    more stroke contrast · 13% wider · x-height 9% taller

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, o, and Q

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  11. 72match · #11

    Geist

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    x-height 10% taller · 14% lighter

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, o, and l

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  12. 72match · #12

    Radio Canada Big

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    x-height 10% taller · 4% narrower

    Differs most from Violet Sans in 0, 3, and O

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The 100 fonts like Violet Sans, measured

Violet Sans has a shorter x-height than most fonts like it: 88 of the 100 have a taller x-height and 1 a shorter one. What they keep most is Violet Sans’s width: 40 are within 3% of it, Onest the closest of them. They part from Violet Sans most often in 0 (93 of the 100), Q (35) and O (29).

Questions about fonts like Violet Sans

What is the closest font to Violet Sans?

Mozilla Text, at 77 out of 100 in our letter-by-letter match: next to Violet Sans, it is 19% lighter and 6% wider, with an x-height 11% taller. After it come Onest (74) and BDO Grotesk (74).

Is there a free alternative to Violet Sans?

Violet Sans is free itself, under the SIL Open Font License. For another font with its feel, every font on this page is free too, and Mozilla Text, Onest and BDO Grotesk come closest. To change fonts without moving your lines much, Estedad sets running text 0.5% narrower, with an x-height 1.9% taller.