The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Manrope
A free alternative to Aktiv Grotesk.
About Manrope
- Designer
- Mikhail Sharanda
- Released
- 2018
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 5 paid font pages
Manrope is also a free alternative to…
- Aktiv Grotesk → Modern grotesque with subtly distinctive curves. Slightly warmer than Aktiv Grotesk but in the same contemporary-modernist register, with a clean variable-weight axis for fluid display use.
- Neue Haas Grotesk → A modern grotesque with subtly distinctive curves — slightly warmer than Neue Haas Grotesk's original cut, but in the same modern-grotesque register. Variable weight axis for fluid display use.
- Helvetica → A modern grotesque with subtly distinctive curves. Slightly warmer than Helvetica — a humanist nudge if you want neutrality without the iciness, and a clean variable-weight axis.
- Proxima Nova → A modern grotesque on the same geometric-humanist axis as Proxima Nova. Variable weight axis, subtly distinctive curves — the right pick when you want Proxima's neutral voice with a touch more contemporary character.
- Söhne → Modern grotesque with subtly distinctive curves. Slightly warmer than Söhne but in the same modern-grotesque register — a good pick when you want Söhne's contemporary edge with a touch more humanist character.
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial Manrope + EB Garamond
The shape of a working week
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.