Commercial · Sans serif · Linotype
Kabel
Kabel is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 4 fonts: $135.99 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. Kabel is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Rudolf Koch
- Released
- 1927
- Styles
- 4
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 4 fonts: $135.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Rudolf Koch's geometric sans, begun in 1926 and released by Klingspor in 1927; the Linotype version with a short x-height and long extenders. Four styles.
Free alternatives to Kabel
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Kabel 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 Josefin Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Josefin Sans.
same classification
Inspired by 1920s geometric sans designs with a deliberately low x-height, matching Kabel's long ascenders and small body.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
same classification
Inspired by 1920s German sans faces, Kabel's own generation; more Futura-like, without Kabel's Art Deco quirks.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The League Spartan webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not League Spartan.
same classification
American geometric sans of the following decade; heavier and more regular.
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