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. Designed by Dima Grenev.
Unified glyphs width across all weights (Thin → Black), ensuring predictable line and UI-element width behavior during text weight adjustments. This attribute also aids in optimizing text density for dark themes – simply shift one weight step lighter for balanced contrast.
Capitals are vertically centered within the line height, creating harmonious alignment with icons.
Terminals (endpoints of rounded strokes) are horizontally calibrated for visual consistency.
1,200+ glyphs and supports 400+ languages using Extended Latin & Cyrillic scripts.
There are 9 font weights available (Thin → Black).
Note To build from source, you'd need Python 3.9.5 or higher (install instructions for Python available here).
The source files can be found in the "Source" folder. To open them you will need Glyphs app.
To build the .ttf, .otf, woff2 & variable .ttf you will need to:
- Install gftools
pip install gftools - Install fonttools[woff]
pip install fonttools[woff] - Navigate to Akt folder in Terminal app.
- Type
gftools builder sources/config.yamlin Terminal and run it. - To generate variable webfonts, use the build artifacts created by
make build(the variable TTFs in fonts/variable). Conversion to woff2 can be handled by your deployment pipeline or gftools if needed. - After the scripts are complete, the files can be found in fonts folder.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://openfontlicense.org