Commercial · Sans serif · Linotype
Neue Frutiger
Neue Frutiger is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 40 fonts: $548.99 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. Neue Frutiger is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi
- Released
- 2009
- Styles
- 40
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 40 fonts: $548.99 USD (Individual Styles from $71.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Akira Kobayashi's 2009 revision of Frutiger, made with Adrian Frutiger, that regularises the family and expands it to 40 styles across ten weights with italics.
Free alternatives to Neue Frutiger
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Neue Frutiger 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 Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
commonly substituted
A humanist sans with upright stress, open forms and a neutral, friendly appearance; the closest widely used free face to Frutiger's signage-derived clarity.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
Humanist sans intended for user interfaces; similar open apertures and even colour, somewhat narrower.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans with open forms and generous spacing; a little more condensed and squarer in the bowls.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hind webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hind.
same classification
Humanist-style construction with monolinear strokes and flat terminals, built for interfaces; lacks italics.
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