Honk

Try Honk

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Honk Regular

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

About Honk

Honk is a display typeface that translates the loud, decorated lettering of Indian trucks into a colour font. Each letter is a square, blocky shape with clipped corners, set inside a frame; the official notes describe a modular system of ten different styles, with their own shadows and colour palettes. The colours are stored in COLRv1 and CPAL tables. Two variable axes change the drawing: Morph, from 0 to 45, shifts the letter shapes, and Shadow Length, from 0 to 100, extends a shadow behind them. There is one Regular style and no italic. The font holds 3,058 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended, and the notes mention emoji as well. Ek Type designed and engineered the project: Noopur Datye and Yesha Goshar are the designers, Sidharth Jaishankar and Girish Dalvi the engineers. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Honk works

Event and festival posters

Built-in colours, frames and shadows deliver a finished title straight from the font.

Animated titles

The Morph and Shadow Length axes can be animated, so a word changes shape or grows a shadow in motion graphics and on the web.

Social media graphics

A single word in Honk fills a square post with colour without further artwork.

Shop and food-stall signage

The lettering comes from hand-painted vehicle signs and carries that street character to menus and boards.

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 Honk

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 Honk 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: "Honk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Honk-Regular-VariableFont_MORF%2CSHLN.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Honk 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=Honk&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Colour depends on COLRv1 support

Honk stores its colours in COLRv1 and CPAL tables. The specimen on this page is rendered in one colour; the full palettes appear only in software that reads COLRv1.

Two custom axes, no weight axis

The variable axes are Morph (0 to 45, default 15) and Shadow Length (0 to 100, default 0). Weight is fixed at Regular 400.

A large file

With 3,058 glyphs and colour layers, the variable TTF is about 3.7 MB.

FAQs

Collections with Honk

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

• Variable fonts with unusual axes

  Experimental and expressive variable fonts with custom axes: softness, bounce, casualness, morphing, rotation, grade and more.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts