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Brut Grotesque

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

Styles
20
Classification
Sans serif
Price
Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.

Neutral grotesque in the Helvetica tradition, in 10 weights from Line to Black with italics; the foundation character set for Bureau Brut's later collections.

Free alternatives to Brut Grotesque

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Brut 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

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InterSans serif

commonly substituted

Neutral neo-grotesque commonly used as the free stand-in for Helvetica-style faces.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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ArimoSans serif

same classification

Neo-grotesque metric-matched to Arial, close in tone to Brut Grotesque's Swiss neutrality.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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Work SansSans serif

same classification

Grotesque with similar restraint and weight range.

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