Commercial · Serif · Emigre
Tribute
Tribute is a licensed font from Emigre: $125.00, 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. Tribute is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Frank Heine
- Released
- 2003
- Styles
- 2
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $125.00 (Tribute Roman & Italic Package; Roman $79.00, Italic $69.00) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Frank Heine’s 2003 serif modelled on a single source, a type specimen printed around 1565 showing types cut in the 1540s and 1550s; roman and italic.
Free alternatives to Tribute
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Tribute 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 EB Garamond webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not EB Garamond.
same classification
A revival of sixteenth-century Garamond types of the same period as Tribute’s source.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant.
same classification
A display Garamond with a similarly lively italic.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cardo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cardo.
same classification
An old-style serif in the Renaissance idiom.
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