Aktiv Grotesk
Dalton Maag · Bruno Maag, Sahar Afshar, Alex Blattmann, Pilar Cano, Fernando Caro, Emanuela Conidi, Kalapi Gajjar, Pablo Gámez, Fabio Haag, Michele Patanè, Jonny Pinhorn, Diogo Rapazote, Samir Reis, José Solé, Spike Spondike, Andrés Torresi · 2010
A grotesque sans workhorse with Weight, Width and Italic variable axes and support for ten global writing systems.
About
Dalton Maag's Aktiv Grotesk is a grotesque sans typeface offered as a 3-axis variable font with Hairline to Black weights, Condensed to Extended widths and matching italics, totalling 54 static styles. Drawn over 2010 to 2025 by Bruno Maag with a large team including Sahar Afshar, Pilar Cano, Emanuela Conidi, Fabio Haag and Michele Patanè, it covers Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Latin Extended, Malayalam and Thai across more than 1,380 languages. The page describes asymmetrical terminal cuts, slanted bottom terminals, monolinear modulation and moderately closed apertures, and the family ships with an extensive icon set.
Classification
Dalton Maag describes Aktiv Grotesk as a grotesque sans typeface with Weight, Width and Italic variable font axes, designed and developed 2010 to 2025. The page lists asymmetrical terminal cuts, slanted bottom terminals, even proportions, contemporary grotesque shaping, monolinear modulation and moderately closed apertures.