Commercial · Sans serif · ITC
ITC Officina Sans
ITC Officina Sans is a licensed font from ITC: Complete family of 10 fonts: $329.99 USD, 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. ITC Officina Sans is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Ole Schäfer, Erik Spiekermann
- Released
- 1990
- Styles
- 10
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 10 fonts: $329.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Erik Spiekermann's workhorse sans for business correspondence, released in 1990 and later expanded with Ole Schäfer to headline weights and small caps; 10 styles.
Free alternatives to ITC Officina Sans
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. ITC Officina Sans 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 PT Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Sans.
commonly substituted
A humanist sans with squared bowls and narrow set, close to Officina Sans's economical, technical feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Fira Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fira Sans.
same classification
A humanist sans for screens in three widths; similar narrow, workmanlike character, without Officina's slab-like stubs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hind webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hind.
same classification
Humanist sans with flat terminals built for interfaces; plainer than Officina.
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