Commercial · Serif · Colophon Foundry
Fortescue
Fortescue is a licensed font from Colophon Foundry: $60.00 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. Fortescue is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Colophon Foundry
- Released
- 2009
- Styles
- 24
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $60.00 USD (Complete family of 24 fonts: $576.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
A serif first drawn in 2009 for artist Jake Spicer and released that December; remastered from 2017 and extended in 2019 into three subfamilies with varying optical sizes.
Free alternatives to Fortescue
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Fortescue 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 Newsreader webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Newsreader.
same classification
A serif family with a range of optical sizes like Fortescue's three subfamilies; softer detailing.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional serif with optical sizes; crisper than Fortescue.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Literata webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Literata.
same classification
A text serif with optical sizes; plainer.
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