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Bureau Grot
Bureau Grot is a licensed font from Font Bureau: 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. Bureau Grot is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Richard Lipton, Jill Pichotta, Christian Schwartz, Stephenson Blake, Roger Black
- Styles
- 27
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Individual Styles from $40.00 USD (Complete family of 27 fonts: $891.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
English nineteenth-century grotesque developed by David Berlow from 1989 out of Stephenson Blake specimens; 27 styles in regular, condensed and other widths.
Free alternatives to Bureau Grot
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Bureau Grot 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 Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
A grotesque with multiple widths and a similar toothy nineteenth-century character.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Grotesque drawn from the same early sans tradition; single width.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Oswald webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Oswald.
commonly substituted
Condensed gothic often used for Bureau Grot Condensed’s headline role.
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