Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Atlas
Atlas is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $500, 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. Atlas is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Kai Bernau, Susana Carvalho
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $500, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Originally a corporate typeface for Munich Re, Atlas avoids corporate-type trends in favour of the clear, optimistic tone of Dutch Modernism, built for complex typographic situations.
Free alternatives to Atlas
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Atlas 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 Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
same classification
A neutral grotesque built for documents and clarity, similar in intent to Atlas; more American in its Franklin roots.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Inter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inter.
commonly substituted
A clear neo-grotesque used as a stand-in for corporate grotesks like Atlas; more uniform and less warm.
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-tinged sans built for long documents; lighter in colour than Atlas.
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