Commercial · Sans serif · Fontwerk
Case
Case is a licensed font from Fontwerk: 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. Case is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, Ralph du Carrois
- Released
- 2020
- Styles
- 24
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Matter-of-fact neo-grotesque with subtle nuances; version 2 (2023) added 40 styles, Case Text with a smaller x-height, Cyrillic and Greek. Free trial licences offered.
Free alternatives to Case
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Case 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 widely used as the free stand-in for contemporary grotesques like Case.
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 a broad weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
Neo-grotesque with comparable neutrality and widths.
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