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Copperplate Gothic
Copperplate Gothic is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 9 fonts: $383.99 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. Copperplate Gothic is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Clarence C. Marder, Frederic W. Goudy
- Released
- 1901
- Styles
- 9
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- Complete family of 9 fonts: $383.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Frederic W. Goudy's 1901 all-caps face for ATF, a sans at first glance with tiny pointed serifs; the AB and BC style names refer to the relative sizes of capitals and small caps. Nine styles.
Free alternatives to Copperplate Gothic
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Copperplate Gothic 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 Cinzel webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cinzel.
same classification
Caps-led inscriptional face with classical proportions; covers Copperplate's engraved, all-caps role, without its tiny spur serifs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Marcellus SC webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Marcellus SC.
same classification
A small-caps flared serif inspired by Roman inscriptions; similar formal, engraved feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Forum webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Forum.
same classification
Classic Roman proportions for titles; lighter and with a lowercase.
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