Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
Rotis II Sans
Rotis II Sans is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 14 fonts: $524.99 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. Rotis II Sans is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Otl Aicher, Robin Nicholas, Alice Savoie
- Styles
- 14
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 14 fonts: $524.99 USD (Individual Styles from $50.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Robin Nicholas and Alice Savoie's expansion of Aicher's Rotis Sans for Monotype, adding weights and italics; 14 styles.
Free alternatives to Rotis II Sans
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Rotis II 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 Cabin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cabin.
same classification
A humanist sans with modern proportions; shares Rotis Sans's semi-humanist construction, without its distinctive narrow c and e.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rosario webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rosario.
same classification
Classic proportions, subtle contrast and weak endings; close to Rotis's slightly calligraphic sans.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Tenor Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Tenor Sans.
same classification
Humanist sans for body text; similar restraint, single weight.
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