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Commercial · Sans serif · Hoefler&Co

Gotham Rounded

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Gotham Rounded is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $179, 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. Gotham Rounded is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones
Released
2004
Styles
8
Classification
Sans serif
Price
$179 (Gotham Rounded package (8 styles). Prices read from typography.com’s product JSON (the same data the styles page renders); shown on the page as US dollar amounts.)as printed, read 2026-09-05

Rounded-corner adaptation of Gotham (2004), meant to evoke lettering templates, blueprints and machined markings on instruments. Eight styles, four weights with italics.

Free alternatives to Gotham Rounded

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Gotham Rounded 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 Nunito webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Nunito.

NunitoSans serif

commonly substituted

A rounded geometric sans with the same soft terminals; wider and lighter in feel than Gotham Rounded’s squarish engineering forms.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Varela Round webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Varela Round.

Varela RoundSans serif

same classification

A rounded sans of similar simple construction, offered in a single weight only.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The M PLUS Rounded 1c webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not M PLUS Rounded 1c.

same classification

Rounded sans in seven weights, so it covers a weight range Gotham Rounded lacks; its letter shapes are narrower.

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