Commercial · Sans serif · Colophon Foundry
Mabry
Mabry is a licensed font from Colophon Foundry: $60.00 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. Mabry is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Benjamin Critton, Colophon Foundry
- Styles
- 14
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $60.00 USD (Complete family of 14 fonts: $672.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Commissioned in 2014 for Nasty Gal as NG Grotesque, Mabry sits between late 19th-century grotesques such as Schelter & Giesecke's Breite and early 20th-century geometric sans serifs.
Free alternatives to Mabry
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Mabry 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 Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
A grotesque with 19th-century roots and geometric leanings, close to Mabry's blend; less cultivated.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rubik webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik.
same classification
A geometric-grotesque hybrid with rounded forms; softer than Mabry.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
same classification
A 19th-century grotesque revival; more conventional than Mabry's hybrid.
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