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Benton Modern
Benton Modern is a licensed font from Font Bureau: Individual Styles from $40.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. 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. Benton Modern is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- David Berlow
- Released
- 2008
- Styles
- 40
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Individual Styles from $40.00 USD (Complete family of 40 fonts: $1,296.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Scotch-style text and display serif taken from Benton’s Century Expanded, with an italic based on Century Schoolbook; first prepared for the Boston Globe and Detroit Free Press. Display cuts FB 2008.
Free alternatives to Benton Modern
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Benton Modern 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 Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
same classification
A sturdy text serif of similar editorial purpose; old-style rather than Scotch.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional text serif with a comparable robustness and optical sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Playfair Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Playfair Display.
same classification
High-contrast display serif for Benton Modern’s headline role.
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