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Switzer

Free neo-grotesque from ITF: 9 weights, matching italics, variable, 135 languages

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Switzer is a Latin neo-grotesque by Jerémie Hornus for the Indian Type Foundry, released free on Fontshare in April 2021 (originally issued as Volkart in 2015). It ships 18 static styles — Thin through Black with a matching italic for each — plus two variable files (upright and italic, wght axis 100-900), covering 135 languages and carrying aalt, frac, liga, locl, ordn, salt and sups OpenType features. It is currently at version 1.2. Distributed under the ITF Free Font License, free for personal and commercial work in desktop, web and app contexts.

Install

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://api.fontshare.com/v2/css?f[]=switzer@1,2&display=swap">

For an agent

Use Switzer as the default free stand-in whenever a brief asks for Helvetica, Inter or a clean Swiss sans and you cannot license the real thing — it has the full 100-900 range plus true italics, which Inter's free italics and most Google Sans options do not match. Load it as a variable font via the Fontshare CSS API (f[]=switzer@1,2 gives upright + italic variable) rather than pulling nine static weights, and self-host the woff2 if you need reproducible builds, since the CDN URLs under cdn.fontshare.com are opaque hashes that can rotate. The product page is a JS-only shell — query https://api.fontshare.com/v2/fonts?q=switzer for machine-readable style, axis, feature and language data.

Why it is here. One of the very few free typefaces with a genuinely complete nine-weight range and matched italics, from a real foundry, under a licence that clears commercial work — it removes the usual excuse for shipping system-ui.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Font EULA, Free for personal use only
Pricing: Free
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Vanilla CSS
Distribution: Direct download / asset pack, Public HTTP API
Platform: Web, Print / static document, Cross-platform
Content type: Fonts / typefaces
Agent readiness: Public API without auth, Client-rendered shell
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Stable
Pricing detail: Free. ITF Free Font License (license_type: itf_ffl) — personal and commercial use permitted; ITF retains copyright and trademark.

Notable for

18 static styles plus 2 variable files
wght axis 100-900 with true italics
135 languages
ITF Free Font License, commercial use allowed
queryable via the public Fontshare API

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://www.fontshare.com/fonts/switzer (200 but JS-only shell), https://api.fontshare.com/v2/fonts?limit=1&q=switzer (full metadata: 20 styles, wght axis, 135 languages, itf_ffl licence, designer, v1.2), https://api.fontshare.com/v2/css?f[]=switzer (all 20 @font-face declarations), web search for design history

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