Commercial · Sans serif · Dinamo
ABC Diatype
ABC Diatype is a licensed font from Dinamo: no price is printed on the pages read for it. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. ABC Diatype is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Dinamo (Johannes Breyer & Fabian Harb, with Elias Hanzer, Erkin Karamemet, Renan Rosatti, Andree Paat, Đức Cao)
- Styles
- 16
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A warm yet sharp grotesque made for text and on-screen reading, named after pre-digital typesetting machines and the Swiss neo-grotesque genre. The base family has 16 styles; Compressed to Expanded, Semi Mono and Mono cuts exist.
Free alternatives to ABC Diatype
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. ABC Diatype is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
A screen-first neo-grotesque frequently used where ABC Diatype would be licensed; Inter is cooler and more rigid than Diatype's warm curves.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Schibsted Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Schibsted Grotesk.
same classification
A Swiss-flavoured grotesque drawn for screen text; fewer weights and widths than Diatype.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hanken Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hanken Grotesk.
same classification
A crisp neo-grotesque in many weights with a similarly warm tone; no width variants.
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