Commercial · Sans serif · Frere-Jones Type
Mallory
Mallory is a licensed font from Frere-Jones Type: $60, 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. Mallory is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Released
- 2019
- Styles
- 110
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $60 (per font; complete family $950. Price fields read from frerejones.com’s GraphQL data (fontFacePrice / completePrice), which the font page renders as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Geometric-leaning sans described as part British and part American; 110 weights across five widths, plus MicroPlus styles for very small sizes. Released 2019.
Free alternatives to Mallory
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Mallory 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 Figtree webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Figtree.
same classification
A friendly geometric sans with relaxed gestures similar to Mallory’s; only one width.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Plus Jakarta Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Plus Jakarta Sans.
same classification
Geometric sans with softened forms in a wide weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
Grotesque with multiple widths, matching Mallory’s width system if not its geometric tone.
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