Commercial · Slab serif · Hoefler&Co
Sentinel
Sentinel is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $199, 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. Sentinel is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonathan Hoefler
- Released
- 2004
- Styles
- 32
- Classification
- Slab serif
- Price
- $199 (Sentinel Basic package; Sentinel Pro $299; ornaments $49. Prices read from typography.com’s product JSON (the same data the styles page renders); shown on the page as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Slab serif in the nineteenth-century ‘antique’ style, first drawn for Texas Monthly in 2004 and published in 2009; romans and italics in six weights, plus two ornament fonts added in 2020.
Free alternatives to Sentinel
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Sentinel 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 Roboto Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Slab.
commonly substituted
A bracketed slab with a similar sturdy text feel; no italics, unlike Sentinel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Zilla Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Zilla Slab.
same classification
A slab serif with true italics and a comparable weight range, drawn with narrower proportions.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bitter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bitter.
same classification
A text slab serif with italics designed for screen reading; its serifs are heavier and its contrast lower than Sentinel’s.
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