Commercial · Sans serif · Dalton Maag
Effra
Effra is a licensed font from Dalton Maag: From £31.00, 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. Effra is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonas Schudel, Azza Alameddine, Hanna Donker, Fabio Haag, Ben Jones, Samir Reis, José Solé
- Released
- 2008
- Styles
- 18
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- From £31.00 (1-Axis Variable Font from £95.00; 2-Axis with all 18 static fonts from £185.00) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Humanist sans tracing its heritage to the early sans of Caslon Junior; clean lines and open shapes across Weight and Italic variable axes. Red Dot winner. Free trial fonts offered.
Free alternatives to Effra
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Effra 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
Rounded-corner sans with similarly open shapes and a big weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
Humanist sans with comparable openness for text.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Nunito Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Nunito Sans.
commonly substituted
Friendly humanist sans often substituted for Effra in web use.
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