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Commercial · Slab serif · Dalton Maag

Lexia

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Lexia is a licensed font from Dalton Maag: From £31.00, 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. Lexia is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Ron Carpenter, Ignacio Casco Guijarro, Reiko Hirai, Franziska Hubmann, Robert Pratley
Released
2007
Styles
18
Classification
Slab serif
Price
From £31.00 (1-Axis Variable Font from £95.00; 2-Axis with 18 static fonts from £185.00)as printed, read 2026-09-05
Trial
The foundry offers a trial download.

Humanist slab serif with a warm tone that gets punchier as weight increases; Weight and Italic variable axes, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. Free trial fonts offered.

Free alternatives to Lexia

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Lexia 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 Zilla Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Zilla Slab.

same classification

Humanist slab with similar warmth and moderate contrast.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

BitterSerif

same classification

Slab with a comparable friendly text texture.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

ArvoSerif

same classification

Geometric slab; sturdier and less humanist than Lexia.

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