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Birra

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Birra is a licensed font from Darden Studio: 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. Birra is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Joshua Darden with guest designers; conceived by Joyce Ketterer and David Jonathan Ross, art direction Eben Sorkin
Released
2021
Styles
5
Classification
Display
Price
Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.

A “flight” of display faces named after beer styles, Stout, Saison, Bruin, Pils and Lambic, each drawn by a guest designer with a beer as inspiration; Birra Stout dates from 2008.

Free alternatives to Birra

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Birra 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 Chango webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Chango.

ChangoDisplay

same classification

A heavy, playful display face.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Shrikhand webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Shrikhand.

ShrikhandDisplay

same classification

An exuberant display serif with a similar sense of fun.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Lilita One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lilita One.

Lilita OneDisplay

same classification

A friendly bold display face.

Own Birra? 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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