Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Action Text
Action Text is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $325, styles from $50, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. 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. Action Text is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Erik van Blokland
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $325, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Erik van Blokland's sans for interfaces and continuous on-screen text, with simplified, exaggerated details for legibility at tiny sizes; a variable version has weight and grade axes.
Free alternatives to Action Text
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Action Text 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 Atkinson Hyperlegible webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Atkinson Hyperlegible.
same classification
A sans engineered for legibility at small sizes with distinctive, exaggerated letterforms, close in intent to Action Text; fewer weights.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Sans 3 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Sans 3.
same classification
A humanist sans for interfaces and long text with a full weight range; plainer details.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Fira Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fira Sans.
same classification
A humanist interface sans with exaggerated, legible details in the Meta tradition; wider than Action Text.
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