Commercial · Display · Hoefler&Co
Tungsten
Tungsten 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. Tungsten is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Tobias Frere-Jones with Jonathan Hoefler
- Released
- 2003
- Styles
- 32
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- $199 (Tungsten (one width); Tungsten Complete, all 32 styles, $496. 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
Compact, flat-sided sans in the sign painters’ ‘gaspipe’ style, first used on Bravo in 2004 and expanded to 32 styles across four widths in 2012.
Free alternatives to Tungsten
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Tungsten 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 Bebas Neue webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bebas Neue.
commonly substituted
A flat-sided condensed sans used for the same poster and headline role; capitals only.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Oswald webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Oswald.
same classification
A condensed sans in several weights with a similar squared feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Barlow Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Barlow Condensed.
same classification
Slightly rounded, low-contrast condensed sans with a full weight range and italics.
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