Commercial · Slab serif · Linotype
Clarendon
Clarendon is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 3 fonts: $100.99 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. Clarendon is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Hermann Eidenbenz
- Styles
- 3
- Classification
- Slab serif
- Price
- Complete family of 3 fonts: $100.99 USD (Individual Styles from $29.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Hermann Eidenbenz's mid-century version of the English Clarendon, the bracketed slab style that first appeared in Britain around 1820; this Linotype family has three styles.
Free alternatives to Clarendon
Suggested, not measured
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Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rokkitt webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rokkitt.
same classification
A slab in the Egyptian tradition; blunter and more geometric than Clarendon's bracketed serifs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Slab.
commonly substituted
A neutral slab serif often used where a Clarendon would be; lacks Clarendon's bracketing and ball terminals.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bevan webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bevan.
same classification
A reworking of a 1930s Heinrich Jost slab serif for display; captures Clarendon's heavy-poster role at bold sizes only.
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