Commercial · Sans serif · Dalton Maag
Aktiv Grotesk
Aktiv Grotesk is a licensed font from Dalton Maag: From £31.00, 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. Aktiv Grotesk is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Bruno Maag and Dalton Maag team (16 designers listed)
- Released
- 2010
- Styles
- 54
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- From £31.00 (1-Axis Variable Font from £95.00; 3-Axis Variable Font with all 54 static fonts from £375.00) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Grotesque sans with Weight, Width and Italic variable axes, 54 static fonts, ten writing systems and an icon set. Free trial fonts offered.
Free alternatives to Aktiv Grotesk
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Aktiv Grotesk 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
Neo-grotesque commonly used as the free stand-in for Aktiv Grotesk in UI work.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Grotesque with similar neutrality and a broad weight range.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo.
same classification
Neo-grotesque with multiple widths, matching Aktiv's width axis.
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