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Lato

A free alternative to Avenir — Humanist warmth and the same neutral-yet-friendly register as Avenir at body text. Less geometric than Avenir's skeleton, but the texture in long-form is close — and Lato has earned its place as one of the most-used Google Fonts on the web.

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The shape of a working week
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Modern · Editorial Inter + Fraunces
Headlines, written under pressure
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Crisp · Reportorial Switzer + IBM Plex Serif
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