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Yes — Bricolage Grotesque is free to download from Google Fonts. Read the licence it ships with before you use it in client work.
Bricolage Grotesque is a collage of lots of different things: historical sources, technical decisions and personal feelings. It started as a fork of Mayenne Sans, an open-source single weight font designed by Jérémy Landes (Studio Triple). It evolved by reinforcing cues from French sources and British sources: the compressed weights lean more towards the anxious and wonky tones of Grotesque Nº9 and the regular weights have a bit more of Antique Olive’s relaxed and confident attitude. The smaller optical sizes become more neutral and reflective of contemporary sans serifs, notably through the use of exaggerated ink traps.
A1 features 7 websites using Bricolage Grotesque, including UHF, Materra, and Humble. They lean towards Fun, Big type, and Sans-serif design styles, and they’re most often built with Framer, Webflow, and Next.js.
