Commercial · Sans serif · Commercial Type
Graphik
Graphik is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $1,300, 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. Graphik is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Christian Schwartz
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $1,300, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Commercial Type's popular editorial workhorse: a hybrid sans that pairs geometric round bowls with the proportions of a European grotesk, with low contrast, open counters and compact descenders.
Free alternatives to Graphik
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Graphik 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
A neutral grotesk-geometric hybrid often used in Graphik's place for interfaces; larger x-height and more rigid than Graphik.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
A low-contrast grotesque with round bowls and a wide weight range, close to Graphik's vanilla tone; looser spacing.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Albert Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Albert Sans.
same classification
A geometric-grotesk hybrid with compact descenders and many weights; cleaner and more geometric than Graphik.
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