Lato font
Lato is a free humanist sans-serif by Łukasz Dziedzic.
A warm, semi-rounded sans whose classical proportions keep it calm at text sizes and confident in headlines.
- License
- Free, including commercial use
- Style
- Humanist sans-serif
- Designer
- Łukasz Dziedzic
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Similar fonts
- Open SansA neutral humanist sans with open letterforms, designed for legibility in print, web and mobile. A safe, readable body face.Free, humanist sans-serif
- NunitoA balanced sans with rounded terminals, warm and approachable, often used for education and consumer apps.Free, rounded sans-serif
- FigtreeA friendly, clean geometric sans designed for interfaces, with a light touch that suits product and marketing pages.Free, geometric sans-serif
- Proxima NovaA hybrid of geometric and grotesque that became one of the most used web fonts of the 2010s.Commercial, geometric-humanist sans-serif
- Work SansA grotesque based on early grotesques, optimized for screen use at medium sizes, with wider extremes for display.Free, grotesque sans-serif
See fonts on real sites
The fonts page ranks the faces real websites use, each with the sites behind it. To find the font on any site, use the website font finder.
Choosing type for a project? In save.design, you can save the sites set in it, upload font files you own, and keep notes beside both. Every website you save keeps its fonts, so you can filter by them later.
See type in motion
Headlines that split, scroll and react, from live websites.
Questions
Is Lato free?
Yes. Lato is free to use, including commercially, from Google Fonts.
Who designed Lato?
Lato is by Łukasz Dziedzic.
What fonts are similar to Lato?
Open Sans (free), Nunito (free), Figtree (free) and Proxima Nova (commercial) have a similar feel.
How can I tell if a website uses Lato?
If it's in the save.design library, its page lists its fonts. For any other site, the analyzer in a save.design account loads the page and lists the fonts it uses.
Check any site with the website analyzer in a save.design account, where a new account includes 10 analyses. Save what you like to a board, then hand it to Claude, Cursor or your other AI tools over MCP when it's time to build.