Free Alternatives to Aptos Supporting Greek

3 alternatives | sans serif | Best match: Inter (86%)

Need a free alternative to Aptos with Greek script support? These 3 options include Greek characters and share visual similarities with Aptos. Each is licensed for free personal and commercial use.

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Comparison Table

Font Relevance Similarity Weights Variable License Source
Inter 0 86% Variable Yes OFL-1.1 Google Fonts ↗
Arimo 0 74% Variable Yes OFL-1.1 Google Fonts ↗
Source Sans 3 0 70% Variable Yes OFL-1.1 Google Fonts ↗

All Alternatives (3)

#1 Inter 86%
[Google Fonts] · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Screen-first neo-grotesque with the same large x-height and open apertures.

Why it matches: Inter and Aptos were solving the same problem a decade apart: how to make a neutral grotesque that stays legible at interface sizes. Both land on a large x-height, open apertures and generous spacing, and both disambiguate characters that older grotesques let collide. Inter goes further on weight range — nine weights against Aptos's six — and its variable axis is more widely supported outside the Microsoft ecosystem. The main visible difference is warmth: Aptos keeps small humanist gestures that Inter files off in favour of consistency.
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#2 Arimo 74%
[Google Fonts] · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Also drawn by Steve Matteson; shares his neo-grotesque construction logic.

Why it matches: Arimo and Aptos come from the same hand. Steve Matteson drew both, and the underlying construction logic — how the curves meet the stems, how the shoulders spring — carries across, which is why Arimo sits closer to Aptos than its brief would suggest. What it lacks is the warmth: Arimo was constrained by Arial's metrics and could not take the small liberties Aptos does with the `R` and `g`. Its weight range also stops at 700, so there is no Light. Choose it when you want Matteson's rhythm and OFL licensing without needing Aptos's personality.
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#3 Source Sans 3 70%
[Google Fonts] · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Adobe's open-source UI sans, humanist where Aptos is grotesque-with-warmth.

Why it matches: Source Sans 3 approaches the same middle ground from the humanist side rather than the grotesque side. Its stroke endings carry more of a written origin and its `a` and `g` are more openly calligraphic, so the page reads warmer than Aptos while remaining thoroughly neutral. It is a good match when the documents in question are meant to be read at length — reports, papers, long memos — rather than skimmed.
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