Free fonts similar to Sabon

The alternatives in detail

How to recognize Sabon

Jan Tschichold, 1967, released jointly by Linotype, Monotype and Stempel. The roman follows Claude Garamond and the italic follows Robert Granjon.

• Garamond shapes with a slightly larger x-height and more regular, economical letters.
• The italic is as wide as the roman, a leftover of Linotype’s technical limits, so it looks unusually open.
• A narrow f that does not overhang the next letter.

In a site’s CSS it may appear as Sabon LT Std, Sabon LT Pro, Sabon Next, linotype-sabon. Not sure what you are looking at? Identify the font on the live page first.

Is Sabon free?

Commercial, from Linotype (Monotype). It is included with Adobe Fonts, where its CSS name is linotype-sabon. It is not preinstalled on Windows or macOS.

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 EB Garamond 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: "EB Garamond";
  src: url("/fonts/eb-garamond-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "EB Garamond";
  src: url("/fonts/eb-garamond-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "EB Garamond", Garamond, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Georgia, serif;
}