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GT Zirkon

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GT Zirkon 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 Zirkon is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.

Designer
Tobias Rechsteiner
Released
2018
Styles
16
Classification
Sans serif
Price
Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
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An extravagant sans-serif workhorse that applies small-size optimisation techniques, such as ink traps, as ornament at all sizes. 16 styles.

Free alternatives to GT Zirkon

Suggested, not measured

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

same classification

A grotesque with visible ink traps and optical sizes, sharing GT Zirkon's ornamental use of technical details; more display-oriented.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Schibsted Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Schibsted Grotesk.

same classification

A grotesque with pronounced ink traps at its joints; narrower range.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.

Work SansSans serif

same classification

A grotesque of similar weight range; without the ink-trap detailing.

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