Commercial · Sans serif · Playtype
Berlingske Sans
Berlingske Sans is a licensed font from Playtype: Buy from 65€, 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. Berlingske Sans is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonas Hecksher
- Released
- 2014
- Styles
- 19
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Buy from 65€ — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Open humanist sans with proportions referencing serif type, drawn very open in a, c and s; 10 weights, 19 styles. Demo fonts offered.
Free alternatives to Berlingske Sans
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Berlingske Sans 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 Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
Humanist sans with similarly open a, c and s.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Fira Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fira Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans with comparable openness and weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Alegreya Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alegreya Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans whose serif-derived proportions echo Berlingske Sans.
Own Berlingske Sans? Point the app at the file and this list becomes measured: every open family ranked by how close it actually is, with the difference named. The file never leaves your machine.
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