Commercial · Slab serif · Linotype
Memphis
Memphis is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 7 fonts: $429.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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. Memphis is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Rudolf Wolf
- Styles
- 7
- Classification
- Slab serif
- Price
- Complete family of 7 fonts: $429.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Rudolf Wolf's geometric slab serif for Stempel, rational and neutral in character; seven styles.
Free alternatives to Memphis
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Memphis 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 Josefin Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Josefin Slab.
same classification
Its page says it sits between Kabel and Memphis with modern details; the closest free relative of Memphis's geometric slab.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Arvo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Arvo.
same classification
A geometric slab in four styles; similar monoline construction and blunt serifs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rokkitt webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rokkitt.
same classification
Geometric slab inspired by 1910s-1930s Egyptians, Memphis's own period.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Slab.
commonly substituted
A neutral slab for the same text and headline role.
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