Rotis® font
Rotis is a humanist sans serif by Otl Aicher, first issued by Agfa in 1988. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype, as Rotis Sans Serif. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Philosopher
Takes inspiration from Agfa Rotis · Google Fonts: Philosopher
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Rotis: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Rotis or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Rotis
- Designed by
- Otl AicherSource: Wikipedia: Rotis
- First issued
- Agfa, 1988Source: Wikipedia: Rotis
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Rotis
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype, as Rotis Sans Serif
- Trademark
- Rotis is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Rotis® is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype Imaging Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Rotis
Is Rotis free?
No. Rotis is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype, as Rotis Sans Serif. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Rotis?
Rotis was designed by Otl Aicher, and first issued by Agfa in 1988.
Can I use Rotis in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Rotis. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Rotis isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Philosopher, Lato and Fira Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Rotis?
FontKind hasn’t measured Rotis: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Philosopher. Beside them, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Rotis.