Commercial · Display · Frere-Jones Type
Conductor
Conductor is a licensed font from Frere-Jones Type: $60, 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. Conductor is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger
- Released
- 2018
- Styles
- 8
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- $60 (per font; complete family $225. Price fields read from frerejones.com’s GraphQL data (fontFacePrice / completePrice), which the font page renders as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Display family based on numerals from vintage Bulgarian lottery tickets: a boxy roman built on rectangles and an italic built on triangles, in four widths. Released 2018.
Free alternatives to Conductor
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Conductor 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 Bungee webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bungee.
same classification
A chunky display face with a strong geometric skeleton; upright only.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Righteous webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Righteous.
same classification
A rounded-rectangle display sans with a single weight.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rubik Mono One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik Mono One.
same classification
Heavy rectangular display letters, capitals and lowercase in one weight.
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