Familjen Grotesk

Try Familjen Grotesk

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Familjen Grotesk Regular Italic
• Medium 500Familjen Grotesk Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Familjen Grotesk SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Familjen Grotesk Bold Bold Italic

Familjen Grotesk is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Familjen Grotesk

Familjen Grotesk is a sans serif in the grotesque tradition, with a large lowercase, fairly closed apertures and sturdy capitals. What sets it apart are the notches, or ink traps, cut where strokes meet: at headline sizes they show as a deliberate detail, and at small sizes they keep the joins from clogging. The specimen also shows a single-storey a and a j with a broad curved tail. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, in an upright and an italic file, and names four weights in each: Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, eight styles. It contains 696 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The catalogue credits Familjen STHLM AB; the name table lists Anders Wikstroem, Jonas Baeckman, Matilda Gysing and Kristian Moeller as designers.

Where Familjen Grotesk works

Brand identities

Ink-trap notches and a single-storey a give a wordmark recognisable details, and the same family then sets the supporting text.

Large editorial headlines

At display sizes the notches at the joins become visible features of the letters.

Body text on websites

A large lowercase and the Regular and Medium weights, each with an italic, cover paragraphs, emphasis and captions.

Interface text at small sizes

The traps keep junctions open where strokes would otherwise fill in on low-resolution screens.

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 Familjen Grotesk

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 Familjen Grotesk 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: "Familjen Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FamiljenGrotesk-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Familjen Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FamiljenGrotesk-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Familjen Grotesk", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Familjen Grotesk 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=Familjen+Grotesk:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No weights lighter than Regular

The axis starts at 400 and ends at 700. There are no Light or Black styles in Familjen Grotesk.

Two variable files

One file holds the upright range and one the italic range. Static single-weight files are not in the package.

Single-storey a

The lowercase a in the specimen is the round, single-storey form, which changes the texture of text compared with a two-storey a.

FAQs

Collections with Familjen Grotesk

• Grotesque sans-serif fonts

  Grotesque and neo-grotesque sans-serif families: plain, sturdy, slightly irregular workhorses for branding, editorial design and interfaces.

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