Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
Rotis Sans Serif
Rotis Sans Serif is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 6 fonts: $263.99 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 Sans Serif 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
- Released
- 1989
- Styles
- 18
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 6 fonts: $263.99 USD (Individual Styles from $45.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Otl Aicher's 1989 sans for Agfa, the monotone member of the four-part Rotis family sharing cap height, x-height and stem weight with its semi-sans and serif siblings; 18 styles.
Free alternatives to Rotis Sans Serif
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Rotis Sans Serif 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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