Free fonts similar to Söhne

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How to recognize Söhne

Kris Sowersby, 2019, Klim Type Foundry. It grew from memories of the Akzidenz-Grotesk, sold in America as Standard, that Unimark used for New York subway signage.

• German weight names in the font files: Buch, Kräftig, Halbfett, Dreiviertelfett.
• A Helvetica-like color with the slightly tougher, less polished detailing of Akzidenz-Grotesk.
• Often used with its own companions: Söhne Breit (wide), Söhne Schmal (condensed) and Söhne Mono.

In a site’s CSS it may appear as Sohne, sohne-var, Söhne Buch, Söhne Breit, Söhne Schmal, Söhne Mono. Not sure what you are looking at? Identify the font on the live page first.

Seen on sites we inspected

These pages show the exact sizes, weights and spacing measured on the live site, for Söhne or the brand typeface that replaced it.

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Is Söhne free?

Commercial, sold only by Klim Type Foundry. It is not on Adobe Fonts and not preinstalled anywhere, so every site using it holds 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 Inter 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: "Inter";
  src: url("/fonts/inter-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inter";
  src: url("/fonts/inter-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

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