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24 alternatives to Leon Sans

A geometric sans-serif typeface made with code

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Leon Sans launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Google Sans Code▲392
The new font meticulously crafted for coders from Google
2025 · fonts.google.com · its alternatives →
2
Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font▲443
2021 · codingfont.com · its alternatives →
3
Google Fonts▲1,159
Brand new redesign to Google Fonts ✨
2016 · fonts.google.com · its alternatives →
4
Sans Francisco▲604
A collection of tools and resources for designers
2016 · its alternatives →
5
What Font Is▲353
Find any font from any image (commercial or free)-WhatFontIs
2019 · whatfontis.com · its alternatives →
6
Peak▲106
A simple sans-serif typeface for use on web
2015 · its alternatives →
7
Sans Bullshit Sans▲106
The font that censors buzzwords
2015 · sansbullshitsans.com · its alternatives →
8
Video Game in a Font▲605
2021 · coderelay.io · its alternatives →
9
Optician Sans▲200
A free font based on the historical eye charts
2018 · optician-sans.com · its alternatives →
10
A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures▲171
A font that renders numbers as medieval Cistercian numerals
Feb 2026 · bobbiec.github.io · its alternatives →
11
Font Fit▲377
Try fonts on a live website and share results with a link.
2016 · fontfit.com · its alternatives →
12
Typewolf▲485
What’s trending in type
2015 · typewolf.com · its alternatives →
13
Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM▲191
During the hype of llama.ttf months ago, I was speculating the potential of WASM shaper for even crazier purpose, one that fitter to a font shaper's duty -- to synthesize font at runtime. This project as proof-of-concept implements a synthesizer that generates and rasterizes handwriting-style font, backed by a super-lightweight RNN model (~14MiB).
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
Fixel Font by MacPaw▲320
Your new basic font, use it everywhere, adjust to your needs
2023 · fixel.macpaw.com · its alternatives →
15
Archetype▲232
Create beautiful web typography designs, in the browser
2017 · archetypeapp.com · its alternatives →
16
Z80 Sans▲65
OpenType font that disassembles Z80 instructions. Contribute to nevesnunes/z80-sans development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Unique▲281
Easily design custom fonts in a few steps
2018 · unique.prototypo.io · its alternatives →
18
CSS Sans▲36
A Pure CSS Font
2015 · yusugomori.com · its alternatives →
19
Brand New Roman▲283
The typeface entirely made up of brand logos 👨‍💻
2018 · brandnewroman.com · its alternatives →
20
Classyfont▲135
Tired of manually writing CSS for your fonts?
2023 · classyfont.com · its alternatives →
21QC
QR code renderer in a TrueType font▲118
In the "Libre Barcode Project" discussion yesterday, 1bpp asked: "Is anyone willing to sacrifice their sanity for the sake of implementing a QR renderer as TTF hinting code?" Yes. I had some tokens to burn and was curious... turns out, it's possible. This was put together by a mix of Gemini, GPT, and Claude (depending on which usage limits kept running out).
Jun 2026 · qr.jim.sh · its alternatives →
22
I made a Font using Code▲13
A Free Futuristic Plexus Like SVG Font. Contribute to aswinmohanme/Plexta-FreeFont development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
23
Typefont▲288
An AI that recognizes the font of a text in a photo
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
24
I made a grid based font editor and font▲243
Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.
2022 · brutalita.com · its alternatives →

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