A free alternative to Minion?

April 14, 2008 4:01 PM

Does anyone know of a free alternative for the font "Minion"?

It looks like this

I'm working on a project for school and I'd really like to use a similar font...

My google-fu turns up nothing...

posted by ThomThomThomThom to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Don't know of one off the top of my head, but I suggest hunting around the serif category at dafont you're bound to find something similar enough.
posted by nerdcore at 5:07 PM on April 14, 2008

Also, when you browse on dafont, it's helpful to use the custom preview option, in your case, typing in Washington University in St Louis yields some similar fonts.
posted by nerdcore at 5:10 PM on April 14, 2008

The text on top isn't minion... its some kind of mutilated compressed goudy oldstyle.
posted by muscat at 5:33 PM on April 14, 2008 [1 favorite]

Note that Minion is/was a free font with Adobe Reader installs.
posted by tachikaze at 5:42 PM on April 14, 2008

I just checked my Reader 8.0 install, the family is in there.
posted by tachikaze at 5:44 PM on April 14, 2008

if you google "minion.ttf" you find a lot of open ftps that have it, probably not legal but if it's installed by acrobat reader I'm sure it's really not a big deal.
posted by glip at 6:53 PM on April 14, 2008