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Commercial · Sans serif · Process Type Foundry

Maple

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Maple is a licensed font from Process Type Foundry: no price is printed on the pages read for it. 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. Maple is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Eric Olson
Released
2005
Styles
8
Classification
Sans serif
Price
Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
Trial
The foundry offers a trial download.

A grotesque drawn in 2005 to replace an earlier 2002 design the foundry withdrew; four weights with italics.

Free alternatives to Maple

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Maple 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.

Work SansSans serif

same classification

A grotesque with an unfussy character.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

ArchivoSans serif

same classification

Grotesque with several widths and weights.

Quiet luxury, approachable

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

Libre FranklinSans serif

same classification

American grotesque revival with a similar sturdiness.

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