Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Styrene
Styrene is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $450, 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. Styrene is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Berton Hasebe
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $450, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A sans inspired by an awkward early 20th-century Enschedé specimen, with an ahistorical, synthetic feel and proportions in which typically narrow characters are widened.
Free alternatives to Styrene
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Styrene 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 Space Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Space Grotesk.
same classification
A wide-set grotesque with deliberately synthetic, geometric quirks like Styrene; more monospace-derived in detail.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
A grotesque with extended widths available; plainer than Styrene.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Krona One webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Krona One.
same classification
A wide grotesque with a similar squared feel; single weight only.
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