Commercial · Sans serif · HVD Fonts
Brandon Text
Brandon Text 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 Text 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
- 2012
- 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
Companion to Brandon Grotesque with a higher x-height, optimised for long texts, small sizes and screens; six weights with italics, designed 2012.
Free alternatives to Brandon Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Brandon Text 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 Nunito Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Nunito Sans.
commonly substituted
A geometric-humanist sans that reads comfortably at text sizes, as Brandon Text is meant to.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Figtree webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Figtree.
same classification
Friendly geometric sans with text-friendly proportions.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Poppins webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Poppins.
same classification
Geometric sans with a large x-height; more mechanical than Brandon Text.
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