Commercial · Sans serif · Bureau Brut
Brut Grotesque
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
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
Neutral neo-grotesque commonly used as the free stand-in for Helvetica-style faces.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Arimo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Arimo.
same classification
Neo-grotesque metric-matched to Arial, close in tone to Brut Grotesque's Swiss neutrality.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Grotesque with similar restraint and weight range.
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