Commercial · Sans serif · HVD Fonts
Brandon Grotesque
Brandon Grotesque is a licensed font from HVD Fonts: 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. Brandon Grotesque is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Hannes von Döhren
- Released
- 2010
- Styles
- 12
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Individual Styles from $40.00 USD (Complete family of 12 fonts: $249.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Geometric sans in six weights with italics, designed 2009–10 and influenced by 1920s–30s geometric faces, with forms optically corrected for legibility; TDC2 award 2011.
Free alternatives to Brandon Grotesque
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Brandon Grotesque 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 Montserrat webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Montserrat.
commonly substituted
A geometric sans regularly used in place of Brandon; its x-height is larger and its forms rounder.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Josefin Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Josefin Sans.
same classification
Geometric sans with a small x-height close to Brandon’s proportions; lighter in feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
same classification
Futura-style geometric sans with a comparable small lowercase.
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