Commercial · Sans serif · Fontsmith
FS Elliot
FS Elliot is a licensed font from Fontsmith: $80.00 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. FS Elliot is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Nick Job
- Styles
- 10
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $80.00 USD (Individual Styles from; complete family of 10 fonts: $314.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Workhorse sans rooted in 1960s British modernism, drawing on Design Research Unit's brand type and the Calvert/Kinneir road-sign lettering; a Pro version adds Cyrillic and Greek.
Free alternatives to FS Elliot
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. FS Elliot 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 Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
Neutral contemporary sans commonly substituted for open, functional grotesques like FS Elliot.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
same classification
Clean neo-grotesque with similarly open, simple forms.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
same classification
Grotesque with comparable clarity and a broad weight range.
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