Licenses

Free Circular alternatives

Laurenz Brunner for Lineto, 2013, and the face behind a decade of technology branding.

What a Circular substitute has to get right

A geometric skeleton softened just enough not to be cold — a true circle for the o, but a lowercase drawn by eye rather than by compass. Strict geometry overshoots it.

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.

  • DM Sans

    Sans-serif · Colophon Foundry · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Circular 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.