Commercial · Sans serif · Hoefler&Co
Decimal
Decimal is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $149, 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. Decimal is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonathan Hoefler and Sara Soskolne
- Released
- 2019
- Styles
- 60
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $149 (Decimal 2 package; Decimal Complete, all 60 styles in Pro editions, $399. Prices read from typography.com’s product JSON (the same data the styles page renders); shown on the page as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Sans inspired by the lettering on watch dials, with open gestures and dilated corners for small sizes. First shown in 2019; used by the Biden campaign and White House from 2020.
Free alternatives to Decimal
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Decimal 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 Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
commonly substituted
A neutral American sans used for government and institutional work, the role Decimal has taken on; it lacks Decimal’s dial-lettering details.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
A grotesque with open forms optimised for small sizes on screen.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
same classification
A screen sans with open apertures and a large x-height; more mechanical than Decimal.
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