Commercial · Serif · Monotype
Plantin
Plantin is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 9 fonts: $209.99 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. Plantin is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Robert Granjon, Frank Hinman Pierpont
- Styles
- 10
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 9 fonts: $209.99 USD (Individual Styles from $29.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Frank Hinman Pierpont's Monotype roman after Robert Granjon's sixteenth-century types, begun after his 1912 visit to the Plantin-Moretus Museum and drawn for mechanical setting; nine styles.
Free alternatives to Plantin
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Plantin 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 Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
A contemporary Garalde in many weights; similar sturdy old-style colour for books and journals.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gentium Plus webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gentium Plus.
same classification
A Renaissance-style old-style face with broad language coverage; comparable text colour, more calligraphic.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
commonly substituted
A robust transitional text serif; matches Plantin's economy and darkness in text, with a different axis.
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