Commercial · Sans serif · Berthold
AG Book W1G
AG Book W1G is a licensed font from Berthold: Complete family of 28 fonts: $524.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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. AG Book W1G is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Günter Gerhard Lange
- Released
- 1969
- Styles
- 28
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 28 fonts: $524.99 USD (Individual Styles from $99.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Günter Gerhard Lange's 1969-73 modification of Akzidenz-Grotesk, positioned closer to Helvetica; 28 styles in three widths with Cyrillic and Greek and small capitals in most styles.
Free alternatives to AG Book W1G
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. AG Book W1G 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 Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Its page says it is based loosely on early grotesques such as Stephenson Blake and Bauer; that is the same nineteenth-century grotesque lineage Akzidenz-Grotesk comes from.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
A grotesque family reminiscent of late-nineteenth-century American types; a comparable plain grotesque with a similar cap-to-x-height relationship.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
Neutral neo-grotesque used freely in interface work; cleaner and more uniform than Akzidenz, with a larger x-height.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto.
commonly substituted
Widely available neo-grotesque; a serviceable stand-in for a plain grotesque, though its curves are more open and geometric.
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