Akt

Akt is a contemporary sans-serif typeface crafted for clarity and precision in modern digital design. Built with an interface-first approach, it ensures consistent behavior across layouts, components, and viewports — a dependable foundation for UI and design systems.

Each weight is designed with intent: mid-range weights support comfortable reading, while heavier ones add focus and structure to titles and key visual elements. Balancing rational geometry with refined optical details, Akt offers the precision developers need and the flexibility designers expect — a unified typographic system for modern interfaces and branding.

The variable font axis allows fine-tuning weight to match your layout needs. The family covers basic Latin and Cyrillic scripts and includes essential punctuation and symbols. Vertical metrics are set for balanced line spacing across platforms.

Design highlights include compact counters, open apertures, and a steady rhythm that works well from small UI labels to longer paragraphs. The typographic color remains consistent through the optical weight range, making it reliable for product design, dashboards, and editorial interfaces.

Status: Release, Maintenance
Role: Author, Type Designer
Domain: Interface Typeface, Design Systems
Link: Google Fonts ↗

This section shows the structural base of Akt: the weight range, display behavior, scripts, figures, symbols, arrows, and OpenType forms.

Weight System and Glyph Set

1.1

Weight system

Nine weights cover the range from quiet service text to strong headings while staying inside one typographic system.

Akt specimen 01 — Fig. 1.All styles from Thin (100) to Black (900).

1.2

Display range

Large-size setting shows the display range of the family without breaking spacing or rhythm.

Fig. 2.Basic Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and numerals across the full weight range with transparent overlay.

1.3

Language support

The glyph set supports Extended Latin, Extended Cyrillic, Greek, and basic IPA, plus figures, symbols, arrows, and OpenType forms.

Akt specimen 07 — Fig. 3.Full glyph set: letters, numerals, ligatures, symbols, arrows, and OpenType glyphs.

Features

The feature blocks explain how the family behaves in interface conditions: weight calibration, unispaced widths, icon alignment, dark themes, and stylistic sets.

2.1

Form calibration

Curves and terminals are calibrated so the character of the letterforms remains stable as the weight changes.

Fig. 4.All capitals aligned by terminals and central axis.

2.2

Uniwidth behavior

Unispacing helps keep line length and component dimensions predictable when weight changes.

Akt specimen 03 — Fig. 5.Uniwidth demonstration on the word Unispaced.

2.3

Icon alignment

Capitals are centered within the line height so labels sit cleanly next to icons and controls.

Akt specimen 04 — Fig. 6.Alignment at glyph scale and component scale.

2.4

Dark themes

In dark themes, a one-step lighter weight preserves contrast, rhythm, and perceived density.

Fig. 7.Weight switching between themes: Dark uses Regular, Light uses Medium.

2.5

Stylistic sets

Stylistic sets add controlled variants for interface-oriented letterforms, Cyrillic alternates, old-style figures, and experimental characters.

Akt specimen 09 — Fig. 8.Stylistic sets and character variants in one reference sheet.

Samples check how the typeface holds numeric data and longer reading text beyond isolated glyph sheets.

Specimens

3.1

Numerals

Numerals are drawn for metrics, statuses, indices, and tabular values, with clear distinction across weights.

Akt specimen 08 — Fig. 9.Three numeric settings at display scale.

3.2

Long text

Paragraph-scale setting tests density, line rhythm, and reading stability beyond short labels and headings.

Akt specimen 10 — Fig. 10.Example with a heading and regular text.