Commercial · Sans serif · Colophon Foundry
Raisonné
Raisonné is a licensed font from Colophon Foundry: $60.00 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. Raisonné is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Benjamin Critton, Colophon Foundry
- Styles
- 14
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $60.00 USD (Complete family of 14 fonts: $630.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
A geometric sans first designed in 2010 for a Yale MFA catalogue raisonné, then expanded in 2012 and 2018-19 from a single DemiBold to Light through Poster with obliques; pays homage to Kabel and ITC Kabel.
Free alternatives to Raisonné
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Raisonné 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 Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Josefin Sans.
same classification
A 1920s-style geometric sans with a low x-height and Kabel-like details; lighter in feel than Raisonné.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
same classification
A geometric sans of the same interwar idiom; more Futura than Kabel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Outfit webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Outfit.
same classification
A contemporary geometric sans; less quirky.
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