Commercial · Serif · Typotheque
Bara
Bara is a licensed font from Typotheque: no price is printed on the pages read for it. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Bara is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Nikola Djurek
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
All-purpose text serif rooted in the incised metal types of the Dutch Golden Age, keeping some particularities of the originals without being a historical revival.
Free alternatives to Bara
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Bara is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
Old-style text serif from the same broad Renaissance-Baroque tradition.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
Text serif with comparable old-style proportions.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Brygada 1918 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Brygada 1918.
same classification
Text serif with incised, calligraphic details similar to Bara's.
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