Museo Sans 500 and Museo Sans 500 Italic are free, and not just for desktop use: MyFonts lists both at $0 for every license type, including webfonts and apps. A matching roman and italic in one free weight makes Museo Sans more usable for text than most free display fonts. The other eight styles are $16.50 each, or $89 for the complete family (checked 17 October 2026).
Museo Sans 500 + 500 Italic: free at every license type
Official free weights from exljbris, checked out at $0 on MyFonts · OTF · desktop, web and app licenses all $0
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The other eight styles are $16.50 each, or $89 for the complete family.
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How to get Museo Sans for free (official)
Museo Sans is made by Jos Buivenga’s exljbris foundry, which sells through Fontspring, MyFonts and FontShop rather than hosting files itself. On MyFonts, choose Museo Sans 500 and Museo Sans 500 Italic, select the license type you need (each is $0), and check out with a free account. MyFonts also lists “Std” versions of both, also at $0.
The free file we measured (version 1.000) maps 379 characters (456 glyphs in total), Latin only. Vietnamese is not supported. Museo Sans is spaced and kerned with Igino Marini’s iKern system, and its OpenType features include ligatures, fractions, lining and oldstyle figures and case-sensitive forms.
What the free license allows
exljbris no longer offers Museo Sans as a direct download from its own site, so the free weights now come through MyFonts or Fontspring, the reseller exljbris names as preferred. On MyFonts, the free weights are listed at $0 for every license type: Desktop, Webfonts (we checked up to 100,000 pageviews a month), App, Electronic Doc and Server, all checked on 17 October 2026. Pick the license type that matches your use at checkout; the license you check out with is the one that applies.
Because the free pair includes an italic, Museo Sans 500 works for simple body text on a website: roman for paragraphs, italic for emphasis, both at $0.
The exljbris license terms that come with these free weights, including the credit rule for self-hosted web fonts, are explained in our Museo free download guide.
Where Museo Sans comes from
Museo Sans is the sans serif member of the Museo family. exljbris describes it as “a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use”. It shares Museo’s friendly proportions without the half-slab serifs, and like Museo it was named one of MyFonts’ Top 10 fonts of 2008.
What the paid styles cost
The family has 10 styles: weights 100, 300, 500, 700 and 900, each with an italic. MyFonts prices in USD, checked 17 October 2026, for a paid style and the complete family:
| License | One style | Complete family (10 styles) |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop, 1 user | $16.50 | $89 |
| Desktop, 5 users | $59.40 | $320.40 |
| Company Desktop, up to 20 employees | $30.94 | $166.88 |
| Webfonts, 10,000 pageviews/month | $16.50 | $89 |
| Webfonts, 100,000 pageviews/month | $63.94 | $344.88 |
| Electronic Doc (e-book, PDF), 1 title | $33 | $178 |
| Digital Ad / Email, 1,000,000 impressions | $16.50 | $89 |
| App, 1 title | $247.50 | $1,335 |
| Server, 1 CPU core | $165 | $890 |
Other packages: the Regular Set and the Medium Set are $49 each. With single styles at $16.50, the complete family is cheaper once you need six or more paid styles.
Free alternatives, compared
- Nunito Sans Regular (Google Fonts, SIL Open Font License) is 2% narrower on the word “Branding”, with similarly friendly, low-contrast shapes.
- Mulish Regular is 2% wider, more geometric and a little lighter.
- Both have full weight ranges for free, which helps if you need a bold alongside the free Museo Sans 500.
Quick answers
Is Museo Sans free? The 500 and 500 Italic are, at $0 for every license type on MyFonts.
Is Museo Sans 300 or 700 free? No. In Museo Sans only the 500 weight is free. (In the original Museo, 300, 500 and 700 are free.)
Do I need to credit the designer? For self-hosted web fonts, exljbris asks for a link or a CSS comment; see our Museo guide for the exact wording.
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Written by Thinh Tran. FontCompass earns a commission if you buy through the MyFonts links on this page, at no extra cost to you. Prices and license terms were checked on 17 October 2026 and can change, so confirm them at checkout.
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