Commercial · Sans serif · Linotype
Frutiger
Frutiger is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 19 fonts: $429.90 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. Frutiger is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Adrian Frutiger
- Released
- 1976
- Styles
- 19
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 19 fonts: $429.90 USD (Individual Styles from $42.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Adrian Frutiger's humanist sans, begun in 1968 for the signage of Charles de Gaulle Airport and completed for Stempel and Linotype in 1976; neither strictly geometric nor humanist, made for recognition at a distance. 19 styles.
Free alternatives to Frutiger
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Frutiger 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 Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
commonly substituted
A humanist sans with upright stress, open forms and a neutral, friendly appearance; the closest widely used free face to Frutiger's signage-derived clarity.
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 intended for user interfaces; similar open apertures and even colour, somewhat narrower.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans with open forms and generous spacing; a little more condensed and squarer in the bowls.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hind webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hind.
same classification
Humanist-style construction with monolinear strokes and flat terminals, built for interfaces; lacks italics.
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