Julian Grotesk Font

Julian Grotesk Font

Julian Grotesk by Simon Dunford is a typeface with a specific and characterful cultural origin — named after Académie Julian, the influential Parisian art school attended by several celebrated painters and lettering artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its defining structural feature is a design in two widths that creates an inherent rhythmic variation across a word or line, evoking the kind of deliberate optical irregularity that was a hallmark of skilled hand-drawn lettering during the Art Deco era. Released under an open font licence for free personal and commercial use.

Julian Grotesk is a distinctive Art Deco-influenced grotesk typeface in our free font collection, designed by Simon Dunford — a type designer based in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, whose work engages thoughtfully with typographic history while producing letterforms that remain immediately usable in contemporary design contexts. Browse our full library of free fonts and discover more distinctive typefaces crafted by independent designers around the world.