Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Duplicate
Duplicate is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $1,000, styles from $50, 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. Duplicate is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Christian Schwartz, Miguel Reyes
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $1,000, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Begun in 2007 as an experiment in redrawing Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive from memory, Duplicate grew into a sans with its own personality across several sub-families.
Free alternatives to Duplicate
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Duplicate 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 Rubik webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik.
same classification
A rounded, wide-eyed sans with a humanist-geometric feel that sits near Duplicate's Antique Olive lineage; softer corners.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Signika webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Signika.
same classification
A humanist sans with a large x-height and open forms similar to Antique Olive's proportions; less expressive.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cabin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cabin.
same classification
A humanist sans of similar weight range; more conventional than Duplicate.
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