The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Founders Grotesk vs Trivia
Two commercial grotesques from small independent foundries, built from very different briefs. Founders Grotesk is Kris Sowersby's 2010 Klim release that distils early British grotesques into one tight, headline-ready family, while Trivia is František Štorm's 2012 Storm Type system, a set of matched Serif, Sans, Grotesk and Humanist families drawn to share one set of proportions.
Founders Grotesk is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Work Sans, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Founders Grotesk → Trivia is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Familjen Grotesk, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Trivia →
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- Founders Grotesk takes its geometry, serpentine curves and narrow apertures from Miller & Richard's early 20th-century Grotesque series and H. W. Caslon's Doric, with spacing modelled on 1950s Helvetica Halbfett headline metal.
- Trivia was conceived as a teaching system to show the difference between serif, sans-serif and Egyptian type, so its Sans and Grotesk cuts are designed to pair with a matching Trivia Serif.
- Founders Grotesk ships as ten styles, Light to Bold with italics; the Trivia system spans several families, from the 12-style Trivia Sans to a much larger Trivia Grotesk, plus a Serif 10 cut tuned for 10-point text.
- Trivia carries Štorm's typical OpenType depth, including small caps, oldstyle figures and discretionary ligatures, and covers Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese alongside Latin.
- Both are commercial fonts: Klim sells Founders Grotesk per style or family, and Storm sells Trivia per family or as a Trivia Complete bundle, so licensing cost is a factor either way.
Founders Grotesk
Reach for Founders Grotesk when you want a single tight, characterful grotesque for editorial headlines, branding and display work with a historical edge.
Trivia
Reach for Trivia when a project needs a coordinated serif and sans that share proportions, especially multilingual books, magazines and catalogues set in Latin, Greek or Cyrillic.