Commercial · Sans serif · Displaay
Matter
Matter is a licensed font from Displaay: 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. Matter is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Martin Vácha
- Released
- 2016
- Styles
- 96
- 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 with a subtle warm touch from lively forms, open terminals and slightly angled vertical terminals; first drawn in June 2015. The collection has Proportional, SemiMono and Mono designs in two x-heights, 96 styles.
Free alternatives to Matter
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Matter 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 Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
A neo-grotesque commonly used in Matter's place for interfaces; more rigid than Matter's lively forms.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hanken Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hanken Grotesk.
same classification
A warm grotesque in many weights; no mono companion.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
A grotesque with open terminals and warmth; looser spacing than Matter.
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