Hanken Grotesk

Try Hanken Grotesk

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Hanken Grotesk Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Hanken Grotesk ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Hanken Grotesk Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Hanken Grotesk Regular Italic
• Medium 500Hanken Grotesk Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Hanken Grotesk SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Hanken Grotesk Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Hanken Grotesk ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Hanken Grotesk Black Black Italic

Hanken 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 Hanken Grotesk

Hanken Grotesk is a sans serif family that takes the classic grotesques as its model. According to its notes, the geometry, metrics, punctuation and OpenType features were reworked so that the family could serve many kinds of project, from wayfinding to book text and screens. In the specimen the letters are clean and slightly geometric: a round o and c, a double-storey a, a single-storey g, a y with a straight tail and quotation marks drawn as slanted strokes. The family comes as roman and italic variable fonts with a weight axis from 100 to 900; nine named weights give 18 styles. Its 706 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Alfredo Marco Pradil leads the project, Hanken Design Co. is named as maker, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Hanken Grotesk works

Wayfinding and environmental signage

Signage is the first use the project names, and Medium to Bold with plain, open letterforms carry directions at a distance.

Books and magazines

Regular with its italic sets running text, and the lighter and heavier weights handle captions and headings.

Websites and mobile apps

Two variable files deliver all nine weights in roman and italic, which keeps the number of font requests low.

Identity systems

Thin 100 through Black 900 give a brand display, text and label weights from a single family.

Vietnamese-language products

A Vietnamese subset is included, so the stacked diacritics are drawn as part of the design.

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 Hanken 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 Hanken 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: "Hanken Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HankenGrotesk-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HankenGrotesk-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Hanken 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=Hanken+Grotesk:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

The download holds a roman and an italic variable font, each with a weight axis from 100 to 900.

Weight is the only axis

There is no width or optical size axis.

Russian is not on the language list

There is no Cyrillic subset, and Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian are not among the languages with a complete letter set. Greek is absent.

FAQs

Collections with Hanken Grotesk

• Clean sans-serif fonts for app interfaces

  Open-license sans-serif families that stay clear in buttons, menus, tables and settings screens, with the weights an interface needs.

Similar fonts

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