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Walbaum
Walbaum is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 69 fonts: $209.99 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. Walbaum is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, Justus Erich Walbaum, Juan Villanueva, Lynne Yun
- Released
- 2018
- Styles
- 69
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 69 fonts: $209.99 USD (Individual Styles from $49.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Monotype's 2018 restoration of Justus Erich Walbaum's early-1800s modern face by Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix and Juan Villanueva, with 32 weights plus ornaments and decorative cuts; 69 styles on MyFonts.
Free alternatives to Walbaum
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Walbaum 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 Old Standard TT webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Old Standard TT.
same classification
Reproduces the Modern (classicist) serifs of late-nineteenth-century editions, the tradition Walbaum belongs to; closest in period feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bodoni Moda webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bodoni Moda.
same classification
A Didone with optical sizes; sharper and more Italianate than Walbaum's German warmth.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Bodoni webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Bodoni.
same classification
A four-style Bodoni; usable for the same high-contrast text role.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Playfair Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Playfair Display.
commonly substituted
High-contrast display serif; the common free choice for a Didone-flavoured headline.
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