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Free Arial alternatives

Drawn for Monotype in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders, and on essentially every computer sold since.

What a Arial substitute has to get right

Widths, before shapes. Arial is what documents are laid out in, so a substitute that is not metric-compatible will reflow a file and change its page count even when it looks close.

The one in this archive

One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.

  • Arimo

    Sans-serif · Steve Matteson · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Arial is not ours and nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by whoever owns it. The name is used to say what these free typefaces can be set instead of. Every font above is redistributable, carries its licence inside the download, and is free for commercial work.