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GT Cinetype

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GT Cinetype is a licensed font from Grilli Type: no price is printed on the pages read for it. 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. GT Cinetype is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Mauro Paolozzi, Rafael Koch
Released
2015
Styles
7
Classification
Sans serif
Price
Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
Trial
The foundry offers a trial download.

Based on a design engineered for a cinema subtitling machine that burned letters into film with a laser moving only in straight lines, so the typeface contains no curves. 7 styles including Mono.

Free alternatives to GT Cinetype

Suggested, not measured

Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. GT Cinetype 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 Michroma webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Michroma.

MichromaSans serif

same classification

A squared, technical sans with straight-edged construction; wider and single weight.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Share Tech webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Share Tech.

Share TechSans serif

same classification

A technical sans with angular, cut-off forms; single weight.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Chakra Petch webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Chakra Petch.

Chakra PetchSans serif

same classification

A squared sans with straight-line construction and several weights; more sci-fi in tone.

Own GT Cinetype? Point the app at the file and this list becomes measured: every open family ranked by how close it actually is, with the difference named. The file never leaves your machine.

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