Commercial · Sans serif · Berthold
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Akzidenz-Grotesk is a licensed font from Berthold: Complete family of 30 fonts: $1,095.00 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. Akzidenz-Grotesk 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, Berthold Design Studio
- Released
- 1896
- Styles
- 30
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 30 fonts: $1,095.00 USD (Individual Styles from $79.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Berthold's grotesque, first published in 1896 and descended from Ferdinand Theinhardt's Royal Grotesk; expanded over the decades, with Günter Gerhard Lange adding AG Super in 1968 and further weights in 2001. 30 styles.
Free alternatives to Akzidenz-Grotesk
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Akzidenz-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 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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