Commercial · Sans serif · URW Type Foundry
Franklin Gothic (URW)
Franklin Gothic (URW) is a licensed font from URW Type Foundry: Complete family of 23 fonts: $345.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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. Franklin Gothic (URW) is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Morris Fuller Benton, URW Design Staff
- Released
- 1903
- Styles
- 26
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 23 fonts: $345.99 USD (Individual Styles from $39.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
URW's version of Morris Fuller Benton's 1903-1912 gothic, credited to Benton and the URW design staff; 26 styles.
Free alternatives to Franklin Gothic (URW)
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Franklin Gothic (URW) 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 Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
derived
Its page describes it as an interpretation and expansion of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic; the direct open descendant of Franklin Gothic.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
derived
Based on Libre Franklin, so it carries the Franklin Gothic skeleton into a neutral interface family.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
A grotesque reminiscent of late-nineteenth-century American types, the same period Franklin Gothic modernised.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Loosely based on early grotesques; shares the sturdy American-gothic feel at heavier weights.
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