The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Schibsted Grotesk
A free alternative to CoFo Robert Sans.
About Schibsted Grotesk
Schibsted Grotesk is a neo-grotesque sans that the Oslo studio Bakken & Bæck, with Henrik Kongsvoll, made for the Norwegian media group Schibsted. It was released as open source in 2023 and added to Google Fonts. The family is meant for screens first, but its visual cues come from Schibsted's background in printed newspapers. It is variable, running from Regular (400) to Black (900), and every weight has an italic. Four masters drive the design, and the character set is Underware Latin Plus, which covers a wide range of Latin-script languages.
It was built for interfaces, so it works well for UI text, dashboards, product pages and editorial layouts that need a calm, neutral grotesque. The heavier weights give headlines some weight without switching to a separate display face. It can stand in for licensed contemporary grotesques such as CoFo Robert Sans when a project needs the same plain register without paying a license fee.
- Designer
- Bakken & Bæck, Henrik Kongsvoll
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
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