sans-serif · Collletttivo
Apfel Grotezk
Luigi Gorlero drew Apfel Grotezk for Collletttivo, the Milanese open-source type collective, as a round and airy sans that borrows from both neo-grotesque and geometric traditions. Its German-named weights — Fett and the ultra-plump Satt — push the roundness from friendly to full.
Weights
Served as WOFF2: the same outlines the foundry drew, about 30% smaller over the wire.
Credit & license
Drawn by Luigi Gorlero, published by Collletttivo under the OFL-1.1 Open Font License. You can use it, freely. Get the files.
Pairs well with
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Source Serif 4 — a rational text serif that grounds Apfel's rounded warmth.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Fraunces — a soft wonky display serif that matches Apfel's plumpness at headline sizes.
New shapes, freely given
The five boxing wizards jump quickly over the lazy dog, and nobody had to ask a licence department first.
Roboto Mono — a boxy mono that plays against the roundness in captions and code.
The x-ray
Same size, same baseline — Apfel Grotezk over Source Serif 4. Where they agree the strokes merge; where they argue, fringes.
“Hamburgefonstiv” is the type designer's test word — it carries most of the shapes that give a face away.