Denk One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Denk One Regular

About Denk One

Denk One is a condensed display sans serif with heavy strokes. In the specimen the letters are tall and narrow, round letters such as O and D are drawn as rounded rectangles with straight sides, the strokes thin where they join, and the k splits its leg away from the stem. The official description says the design took its cue from a German sign painted by hand, was adjusted for the limits of screen rendering, and can be used across a wide range of sizes despite its display character; it also records an update in February 2023 that widened the Latin language coverage. The family is one file, registered as Regular 400, with 776 glyphs for Western and Central European Latin and Vietnamese. Google Fonts credits Sorkin Type, and the name table names Irina Smirnova and Eben Sorkin. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Denk One works

Headlines in tight columns

Narrow, heavy letters fit long words into the width of a mobile screen or a newspaper column.

Shopfront and wayfinding signs

The design started from a painted sign, and its straight-sided rounds hold up on boards and banners.

Event posters

A dense block of capitals fills a poster with little white space between letters.

Web page titles

The outlines were adjusted for screens, so the weight stays even in browser rendering.

Vietnamese and Central European titles

The 776 glyphs include Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish letters.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Denk One

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Denk One on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Denk One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DenkOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Denk One", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Denk One with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Denk+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style, already heavy

Denk One is registered as Regular 400 but looks bold; there is no lighter or heavier companion and no italic.

Two credits

Google Fonts lists Sorkin Type as designer, while the font file names Irina Smirnova and Eben Sorkin.

Latin script only

Cyrillic and Greek letters are not part of the character set.

FAQs

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