Free fonts similar to Apercu

The alternatives in detail

How to recognize Apercu

Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington (The Entente), released in 2010 by their Colophon Foundry. Colophon has been part of Monotype since the end of 2023.

• Geometric round letters combined with grotesque details that look a little off on purpose.
• Compact proportions and tight spacing, usually set in regular or medium for both headings and text.
• Often used together with Apercu Mono for captions, labels and navigation.

In a site’s CSS it may appear as Aperçu, Apercu Pro, Apercu Mono. Not sure what you are looking at? Identify the font on the live page first.

Is Apercu free?

Commercial. It is not preinstalled on any system, so every site using it pays for a web license.

The alternatives on this page are open source, so you can use them on commercial sites, self-host the files and ship them in products. Read more in font licensing in plain English.

Use DM Sans in your CSS

Put the free font first and keep sensible fallbacks behind it. Self-hosting the files is the most private and usually the fastest option.

@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/dm-sans-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "DM Sans";
  src: url("/fonts/dm-sans-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "DM Sans", system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif;
}