Free alternatives
Free alternatives to Avenir
Avenir is a paid font. These free fonts look closest.
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Telling letters
The a, g, R, Q, 3 and & are where lookalikes usually give themselves away. Each alternative's CSS falls back to a system font resized to its measurements, so the page doesn't jump when the font loads. Host the font files yourself.
| Font | Letters | License |
|---|---|---|
| Avenir (original) | Paid | |
| Jost | a g R Q 3 &Drop-in CSS@font-face {
font-family: "Jost Fallback";
src: local("Arial");
size-adjust: 95.51%;
ascent-override: 112.02%;
descent-override: 39.26%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
body {
font-family: "Jost", "Jost Fallback", sans-serif;
} | Free for commercial useSIL Open Font License |
| Mulish | a g R Q 3 &Drop-in CSS@font-face {
font-family: "Mulish Fallback";
src: local("Arial");
size-adjust: 104.99%;
ascent-override: 95.72%;
descent-override: 23.81%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
body {
font-family: "Mulish", "Mulish Fallback", sans-serif;
} | Free for commercial useSIL Open Font License |
| Nunito Sans | a g R Q 3 &Drop-in CSS@font-face {
font-family: "Nunito Sans Fallback";
src: local("Arial");
size-adjust: 101.21%;
ascent-override: 99.89%;
descent-override: 34.88%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
body {
font-family: "Nunito Sans", "Nunito Sans Fallback", sans-serif;
} | Free for commercial useSIL Open Font License |
| Sen | a g R Q 3 &Drop-in CSS@font-face {
font-family: "Sen Fallback";
src: local("Arial");
size-adjust: 107.73%;
ascent-override: 87.20%;
descent-override: 24.48%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
body {
font-family: "Sen", "Sen Fallback", sans-serif;
} | Free for commercial useSIL Open Font License |
| Urbanist | a g R Q 3 &Drop-in CSS@font-face {
font-family: "Urbanist Fallback";
src: local("Arial");
size-adjust: 100.98%;
ascent-override: 94.08%;
descent-override: 24.76%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
body {
font-family: "Urbanist", "Urbanist Fallback", sans-serif;
} | Free for commercial useSIL Open Font License |
Already in Microsoft Word
If you have Microsoft 365, Word already includes a version of Avenir, at no extra cost:
- Avenir Next LT Pro. The 2004 reworking of Avenir by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi.
From Microsoft's cloud font list, checked 3 October 2026. Some of these only appear in Word's font menu once a document uses them.