Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Robinson
Robinson is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $300, styles from $50, 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. Robinson is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Greg Gazdowicz
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $300, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A contemporary sans inspired by calligraphic sans serifs like Lydian and Samson, using the hallmarks of pen construction for visual interest; it recalls mid-century American book-cover lettering.
Free alternatives to Robinson
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Robinson 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 Alegreya Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alegreya Sans.
same classification
A calligraphic humanist sans with a similar pen-derived rhythm; more text-oriented than Robinson.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Belleza webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Belleza.
same classification
A calligraphic display sans in the Lydian idiom Robinson draws on; single weight.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Tenor Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Tenor Sans.
same classification
A pen-influenced sans with elegant proportions; single weight only.
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