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Font Aliases - S

Lookalike Fonts That Start With S

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

This list of font aliases and lookalike fonts start with the letter S. The font pairs in this list were compiled from a variety of online and offline sources. In most cases the font pairs are near-identical in appearance but in some cases the similarities are more in style and the fonts may not be true lookalikes. See the table at the end for an explanation of abbreviations that appear in parentheses.

Sabon (LAG)
    Classical Garamond BT

Sabon
   Berner

Sabon
   September

Sabon
   Symposia

Sans (DTC)
    Hevetica

Sans (URW)
    Helvetica

Sather Gothic
    Franklin Gothic

Savannah Fat
    Buxom

Scott
   Stop

Scribble
   Comix

Scribe (CC)
    Letraset Squire

Script (MT)
    Coronet

Script (MT)
    Monoline Script

Script (MT)
    Ribbon 131

Serifa
   Seriverse

Serifa
   Sierra

Serifa
   Monty

Serifa
   Seraphim

Shattuck Avenue
    Park Avenue

Shelley
   Operinia

Shogun
   Slogun

Showtime
   Ritz

Showtime
   Broadway

Signature
   Baker Signet

Signatur Vario
    Baker Signet

Signete
   Baker Signet

Simoncini Garamond
    Garamond Simoncini

Simoncini Garamond
    Garamondus

Simoncini Garamond
    Italian Garamond

Skylark
   Auriol

Skylark
   Freeform 721

Skylark
   Robur

Slate (BT)
    Geometric Slabserif 712 BT

Slate (BT)
    Rockwell MT

SnellRoundhand
   Bravo

SnellRoundhand
   Signet Roundhand

Sonata (A)
    Musical Symbols

Sonoran Sans Serif
    Helvetica

Sonoran Serif
    New Times Roman

Southern (CC)
    ITC Souvenir

Souvenir (ITC)
    Southern

Souvenir (ITC)
    Sovran

Spartan
   Technica

Spartan
   Techno

Spartan
   Times Gothic

Spartan
   Twentieth Century

Spartan
   Geometric 212

Spartan
   Sans

Spartan
   Sparta

Square 721 (BT)
    Eurostile

Square Slabserif 711 (BT)
    City

Squire (LS)
    Scribe

Staccato 222 (BT)
    Mistral

Staccato 555 (BT)
    Chalk

Staccato 555 (BT)
    Choc

Stamp (CC)
    Stencil

Star Trek
   Square 051

Steel Plate Gothic
    CopperPlate Gothic

Stempel Garamond
    Original Garamond BT

Stempel Garamond
    Euro Garamond

Stempel Garamond
    Garamond Antiqua

Stempel Garamond
    Garamond Royale

Stempel Schneidler
    Amalthea

Stempel Schneidler
    Bauen Schrift

Stempel Schneidler
    Brewer Text

Stencil
    Stamp

Stuyvesant
   Wintergreen

Superb
    Broadway

Surreal (CC)
    Letraset Van Dijk

Surreal
   SurfStyle

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Font Source Abbreviations

A Adobe Systems Incorporated
BAG H. Berthold AG
BT Bitstream, Inc.
CC Corel Corporation
CW CompuWorks
DTC Digital Type Company
ELF Elfring Soft Fonts
IC Image Club Graphics
ITC International Typeface Corporation
LS Letraset or Esselte Letraset
LAG Linotype AG and/or its subsidiaries
MT AGFA/Monotype
URW URW++ Design & Development GmbH
VG Visual Graph

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