Commercial · Sans serif · Milieu Grotesque
Patron
Patron is a licensed font from Milieu Grotesque: $99.00 USD, 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. Patron is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Timo Gaessner
- Released
- 2014
- Styles
- 12
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $99.00 USD (Complete family of 12 fonts: $599.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
A grotesque influenced by Günter Gerhard Lange and Roger Excoffon, with a generous x-height, flared stroke endings and an unconventional shift in balance; six weights from Thin to Black with italics.
Free alternatives to Patron
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Patron 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 Signika webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Signika.
same classification
A sans with a large x-height and open, slightly flared forms in the Antique Olive spirit Patron draws on; fewer weights.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rubik webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rubik.
same classification
A wide-eyed sans with a generous x-height; rounder than Patron.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
A grotesque with a large x-height and broad weight range; no flared endings.
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