Commercial · Serif · Frere-Jones Type
Exchange
Exchange 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. Exchange 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
- Released
- 2017
- Styles
- 18
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $60 (per font; complete family $375. 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.
Text serif originally designed for newspapers, drawing on nineteenth-century Ionic slabs and Bell Gothic; compact proportions with deep notches like its cousin Retina. Released 2017.
Free alternatives to Exchange
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Exchange 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 Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A sturdy text serif with a wide weight range and optical sizes; less compact than Exchange.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Merriweather webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Merriweather.
commonly substituted
A screen-oriented text serif with a large x-height and robust serifs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Noticia Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Noticia Text.
same classification
A serif drawn for news text at small sizes.
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