Grad

What is the Grad font?

Phil Martin, creator of over 400 typefaces from the late ’60s through the ’80s, designed Grad as a redesign of the classic Century Schoolbook for his personal use in the early ’90s.
Changes both subtle and obvious have been made and many new features have been added such as small caps, old style figures, ligatures, and swash capitals. More…
For ten years, Grad was trapped inside Phil’s old DOS computer in an obsolete format. Working from laserprints provided by Phil and specimens of the original ATF Century Schoolbook, Mark Simonson has brought it into the 21st century as a family of three feature-rich OpenType fonts.
All characters, including the swashes, small caps, and alternate characters are included in the basic Grad, Grad Italic, and Grad Bold fonts. The supplementary fonts (Grad Alternate, Grad Sc Osf, etc.) are included for use with programs that do not yet support OpenType features. The supplementary fonts are not needed at all with OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress 7, and so forth.

Grad Font families

The Grad includes the following font families:

  • Grad
  • Grad Alternate
  • Grad SC OSF
  • Grad Italic
  • Grad Alternate Italic
  • Grad SC OSF Italic
  • Grad Bold
  • Grad Alternate Bold
  • Grad SC OSF Bold

Grad Preview

Here is a preview of how Grad will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is A free font? Is Free to Download?

No, is not free to download. You will need to pay for it I'm afraid. Almost every font that we list on HighFonts.com is a paid-for, premium font. We do have a Free Fonts section where we list free fonts that you can download. There is no point trying to find a free download of so please don't waste your time looking.

It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find for free. There's a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!

If you really want and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)