Akatab

Name: Akatab
Author: Unknown

Akatab delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serif89% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

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Best Font Pairings for Akatab

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Akatab, including combinations with ABeeZee, AR One Sans and Alata.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Akatab with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Akatab Editorial Specimen

Akatab in Editorial Context

Akatab is a sans serif typeface by Unknown suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Akatab demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Akatab supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Unknown, Akatab balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Akatab Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Akatab Specimen

Akatab

Akatab is a sans serif typeface by Unknown built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Akatab— sans serif typeface

AkatabBy Unknown

AkatabTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Akatab Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Akatab

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Akatab, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Akatab demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Akatab for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Akatab small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Akatab delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Akatab italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Akatab bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Akatab typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Akatab typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Akatab'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Akatab

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Akatab:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Akatab:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Akatab';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Akatab');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Akatab CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Akatab', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Akatab', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'akatab': ['Akatab', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-akatab">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Akatab's Design

Unknown

Sans Serif

Open Source

Akatab brings natural flow and calligraphic influence, making it well-suited for web content. Its clean lines and no decorative strokes contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for digital interfaces and web content, Akatab adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Akatab supports a range of languages that use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets, accommodatin....

Akatab was crafted by Unknown. The typeface's No serif extensions and Uniform or optically corrected proportions reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary sans-serif design.

As a Neo-grotesque sans-serif in the Vox-ATypI Lineal family, Akatab neo-grotesque sans-serif tradition. Its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it a strong fit for user interface text and navigation elements.

Akatab is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Akatab

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Akatab's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Neo-grotesque sans-serif classification. Akatab exhibits No serif extensions, Uniform or optically corrected proportions, Open or closed apertures. Designed by Unknown. A sans-serif typeface available through TypeSmith.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 89). Akatab delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Unknown. Akatab neo-grotesque sans-serif tradition, delivered as a single focused weight. The designer's portfolio includes gowun dodum and grandiflora one.

Overview

About Akatab

Akatab represents a Neo-grotesque sans-serif in the Vox-ATypI Lineal family, designed during the Contemporary sans-serif design era. Built with No serif extensions and Uniform or optically corrected proportions, Akatab serves as a standard typeface for user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith features Akatab in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Akatab

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Akatab based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Akatab

Akatab scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Akatab's Legibility

Akatab draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Akatab?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Akatab: Comfort in Extended Reading

Akatab provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Akatab Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Akatab. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Akatab at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Getting the Most from Akatab

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Akatab. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Akatab in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Get Akatab

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

Akatab supports a range of languages that use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets, accommodating a wide variety of Western, Central, and Eastern European languages, as well as several languages in the Caucasus region and Central Asia.

Legal

License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Akatab is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Akatab ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'akatab': ['Akatab', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-akatab">Your text here</p>

Akatab

Best Ways to Use Akatab

Best Font Pairings for Akatab

Test Akatab Font Pairings Live

In Context

Akatab Typography

Akatab

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Akatab

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Akatab

Akatab's Legibility

How Readable is Akatab?

Akatab: Comfort in Extended Reading

Akatab Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Akatab

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Akatab

Best Ways to Use Akatab

Best Font Pairings for Akatab

Test Akatab Font Pairings Live

In Context

Akatab Typography

Akatab

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Akatab

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Akatab

Akatab's Legibility

How Readable is Akatab?

Akatab: Comfort in Extended Reading

Akatab Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Akatab

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference