• • • • Proxima Nova is american type designer Mark Simonson鈥檚 most popular font family, a beautiful geometric-grotesque sans-serif that he created in 1994 and revised 2005. It鈥檚 one of my personal favorites, and one of the most used premium fonts on the web. This article explores the free alternatives available as of July 2017. Enjoy and good luck with your projects! 馃檪 • Metropolis • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: The best alternative.

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Includes a whopping 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Black) with matching italics) • Montserrat Available in Google Fonts • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Great alternative. Like Metropolis, it includes a whopping 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics) • Nunito Sans Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Includes 14 styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics. • Muli Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Like Nunito Sans, it includes 14 styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics. • Acherus Grotesque • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: Includes 16 styles: 8 weights (Thin, UltraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, Black) with matching italics.

• CONS: Only 2 styles are free (Regular and Regular Italic). You can also purchase.

• Raleway Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: Like Metropolis and Montserrat, it includes 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics.

• Palanquin Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Telugu • PROS: Includes 4 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold). • CONS: Doesn鈥檛 have italics. • Hind Guntur Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Telugu • PROS: Includes 4 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-bold, Bold). • CONS: Doesn鈥檛 have italics.

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