A proposal for one alphabet with no capitals, since speech has no capitals either. Never cut as metal type in Bayer's time; it lived on Bauhaus printed matter.
Download Jost, free ↗Google FontsUniversal Typeface itself is licensed. Jost is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
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02Put it to work
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Tip. Headline in Jost, standing in for Universal Typeface, body copy in Inter. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Jost 500
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20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Jost
Why Jost. Bayer's Bauhaus alphabet was geometric and lowercase-only; Jost's Futura geometry is the nearest usable relative. Universal Typeface itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Jost, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Jost, on its own. A Futura revival. The same circle-and-triangle geometry, freely licensed.
If Universal Typeface is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.