Commercial · Serif · The Freight Collection
Freight Text
Freight Text is a licensed font from The Freight Collection: From $35.99, 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. Freight Text is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Joshua Darden
- Styles
- 24
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- From $35.99 (per style; Freight Text Family, 12 styles, $266.49; Superfamily, 24 styles, $438.99) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
The serif that started the Freight Collection, inspired by the warmth and pragmatism of eighteenth-century Dutch types; Text size in six weights with italics plus a Compressed width.
Free alternatives to Freight Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Freight Text 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 Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
commonly substituted
A Garamond-style text serif frequently used as the free stand-in for Freight Text; lighter in colour.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
Transitional text serif with a full weight range and optical sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Caslon Text webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Caslon Text.
same classification
An old-style text serif with the Dutch-English warmth Freight draws on.
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