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Raleway

A free alternative to Gotham.

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About Raleway

Raleway is a 2010 geometric sans by Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, built as a variable family whose weight axis runs from Thin all the way to Black. It's an elegant, lightly narrow geometric whose most recognizable trait is a distinctive 'W' — the detail most likely to give away that a layout isn't set in something else. OpenType stylistic alternates ship with the family for exactly that reason.

Switch them on and Raleway becomes a strong Gotham alternative: with the 'W' replaced, the forms sit much closer to Gotham's even geometric proportions, and the Thin-to-Black range covers the display work Gotham is usually hired for. Left at its defaults it reads as its own face rather than a substitute, so the alternates aren't optional if the Gotham look is the goal. For headlines and brand systems, it's the most economical route there.

Designer
Matt McInerney / Pablo Impallari / Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Released
2010
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Display + body that work together

Quiet type that does the work
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Modern · Editorial Raleway + Crimson Pro
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Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
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