Commercial · Sans serif · LucasFonts
TheSans
TheSans is a licensed font from LucasFonts: Complete family of 76 fonts: $1,300.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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. TheSans is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Luc(as) de Groot
- Styles
- 76
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 76 fonts: $1,300.00 USD (Individual Styles from $49.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Luc(as) de Groot's sans from the Thesis superfamily, in Normal, SemiCondensed and Condensed widths with many weights including hairlines; 76 styles on MyFonts. LucasFonts offers trial fonts.
Free alternatives to TheSans
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. TheSans 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 Fira Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fira Sans.
same classification
A humanist sans in three widths with italics; the closest free family to TheSans's wide width-and-weight system.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
Humanist sans for interfaces with a broad weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Saira webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Saira.
same classification
A sans system with many weights and widths, echoing TheSans's systematic build; more technical in shape.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Open Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Open Sans.
commonly substituted
A neutral humanist sans widely used where a corporate sans like TheSans would be.
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