Commercial · Display · OH no Type Co
Hobeaux
Hobeaux is a licensed font from OH no Type Co: $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. Hobeaux is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Released
- 2015
- Styles
- 5
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- $99 (Hobeaux Family, 5 weights; single styles $40) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A tribute to Hobo, the early-twentieth-century display face, in five weights from Light to Black, with an outline treatment; used on the Wiltern and Pantages theatres.
Free alternatives to Hobeaux
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Hobeaux 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 Righteous webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Righteous.
same classification
A retro display sans with rounded, bottom-heavy forms.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Chango webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Chango.
same classification
A heavy display face with a similar playful weight.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Shrikhand webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Shrikhand.
same classification
An exuberant display face for signage-style headlines.
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