Helvetica is one of the most popular fonts in history. Maybe the most popular one. I mean, they made an entire documentary about it.

Some people, though, think it’s a bit overused. And they’re probably right. That’s the reason I wrote this post, to show you a list of free Helvetica font alternatives that are either open source or can be downloaded from Google Fonts.

Enjoy!

Work Sans is a typeface family based loosely on early Grotesques, such as those by Stephenson Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauerschen Giesserei. Download

The TeX Gyre Heros family of sans serif fonts is based on the URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. Download

UnB institutional typographic families were developed from the Liberation Sans type family, selected for its technical quality and its similarity to the typographic families previously used. Download

Arimo offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms. Download

Source® Sans Pro, Adobe’s first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces. Download