Commercial · Sans serif · ITC
ITC Franklin
ITC Franklin is a licensed font from ITC: Complete family of 48 fonts: $3,162.99 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. ITC Franklin is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- David Berlow
- Styles
- 48
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 48 fonts: $3,162.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
David Berlow's 48-style expansion of Franklin Gothic for ITC, described on the page as the next phase of Benton's 1902 ATF design, adding the light and intermediate weights the original never had.
Free alternatives to ITC Franklin
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. ITC Franklin 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 Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
derived
Its page describes it as an interpretation and expansion of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic; the direct open descendant of Franklin Gothic.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
derived
Based on Libre Franklin, so it carries the Franklin Gothic skeleton into a neutral interface family.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
A grotesque reminiscent of late-nineteenth-century American types, the same period Franklin Gothic modernised.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Loosely based on early grotesques; shares the sturdy American-gothic feel at heavier weights.
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