Commercial · Sans serif · Process Type Foundry
Colfax
Colfax is a licensed font from Process Type Foundry: 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. Colfax is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Eric Olson
- Released
- 2012
- Styles
- 12
- 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.
Nearly geometric oval sans with subtle straight sides and near-perfect circles; four workhorse weights and two display extremes, with italics.
Free alternatives to Colfax
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Colfax 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 DM Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not DM Sans.
same classification
A geometric sans with low contrast and similar oval forms.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Manrope webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Manrope.
same classification
A modern geometric sans with a comparable neutral tone.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Plus Jakarta Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Plus Jakarta Sans.
same classification
Geometric sans with softened shapes and a full weight range.
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