A humanist sans from a stone carver. The London and North Eastern Railway set its posters and timetables in it, and it became the look of mid-century Britain.
Download Lato, free ↗Google FontsGill Sans itself is licensed. Lato is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Lato in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Lato.
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Tip. Headline in Lato, standing in for Gill Sans, body copy in Lato. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Lato 700
72pxGill Sans
48pxGill Sans
32pxGill Sans
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Lato
Why Lato. Humanist proportions and a warmer tone than a pure geometric. Gill Sans itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Lato, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Lato, on its own. A humanist sans with semi-rounded details. Warm at body size, stable in headlines.
If Gill Sans is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.