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Free font
Plus Jakarta Sans
A free alternative to Aeonik Soft.
About Plus Jakarta Sans
Plus Jakarta Sans is Tokotype's 2020 geometric grotesque, built on near-circular bowls and a tall x-height with a full variable weight range. Its details carry more personality than the geometry suggests — a friendly single-story 'a', distinctive lowercase forms, and humanist warmth in the terminals that keeps headlines from reading as generic.
That 'a' curves almost identically to Circular's, and the family is the single closest free match for it, near enough to drop into brand and UI work. The balance of geometry and warmth sits very close to Airbnb Cereal, particularly in medium and semibold, and the idiosyncratic lowercase approximates the remix character of Spotify Mix better than Circular ever did. It occupies the same brief as TT Norms Pro for digital product design, while its rounded details and heavy display weights suit gg sans-style headings.
- Designer
- Tokotype
- Released
- 2020
- Available at
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Plus Jakarta Sans is also a free alternative to…
- Aeonik Soft → A geometric sans with soft corner radii and a wide weight range that covers the same brand and product territory. It reads warmer and slightly more playful than Aeonik Soft, with rounder bowls and a less rigid rhythm, but it stands in well for editorial and identity work.
- Airbnb Cereal → Geometric structure with humanist warmth in the details — very close to Cereal's balance, especially in medium and semibold weights. Its slightly quirky letterforms keep headlines from feeling generic.
- Circular → The single closest free match — a geometric grotesque with near-circular bowls, a tall x-height, and a friendly single-story 'a' whose curve reads almost identically to Circular's. A full variable weight range makes it a near drop-in for brand and UI work.
- gg sans → A warm geometric sans whose rounded details and bold display weights suit gg sans-style headings and branding.
- Homizio → Shares the soft geometric structure and single-storey a, with slightly taller x-height and rounder terminals that give it a warmer, more contemporary branding feel. Its weight range matches Homizio's and it adds italics, making it the closest drop-in for interface and marketing work.
- Spotify Mix → Geometric-grotesque hybrid with genuine personality in its details — the closest free approximation of Mix's 'remix' character. Its distinctive lowercase forms give headlines the idiosyncratic edge Circular never had.
- TT Norms Pro → Shares TT Norms Pro's exact positioning — a modern geometric sans built for digital product work — with circular geometry, moderate contrast, and open letterforms. Its variable weights make it an easy drop-in for branding and web.
- Shorai Sans → A contemporary geometric sans with subtly flared, human-feeling strokes that recall the way Shorai Sans keeps brush subtlety inside a geometric frame. It is narrower and more modern in detailing, and it lacks the extreme heavy end, but it pairs comfortably with Japanese fonts in multilingual layouts.
- Acherus Feral → A modern geometric sans from Indonesia with flat terminals, open counters and eight weights plus italics, suited to the branding and interface work Acherus Feral is sold for. Its forms are a little rounder and more neutral, trading Feral's cut corners for a calmer, more corporate tone.
- Crossten Soft → A contemporary geometric sans with rounded forms and a warm, slightly wide stance designed for identity and interface work. It lands close to Crossten Soft's branding register with eight weights plus italics, though its letterforms are a touch more humanist in the x-height and spacing.
- TT Commons Pro → A geometric sans with closed apertures, low contrast and a wide weight range that lands very close to TT Commons Pro's neutral corporate register. It is a touch warmer and rounder in the bowls, and it has no condensed or expanded widths, so the match is tightest in text and interface weights.
- TT Commons → A modern geometric sans with the same low-contrast, closed-aperture construction and a similarly calm, corporate tone across its weight range. It runs slightly rounder and softer than TT Commons, without the lowered cap height, but it covers the same branding-to-interface jobs.
- TT Firs Text → A geometric text sans with a modern European feel and clear, open counters, close to TT Firs Text's crisp but approachable character. It has a slightly larger x-height and tighter details, which makes it a strong substitute for web and branding work.
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