# Honk font

> A variable colour display font from Ek Type, based on the painted lettering of Indian trucks.

Honk is a variable colour display font from Ek Type, designed by Noopur Datye and Yesha Goshar after the painted lettering on Indian trucks. Honk has one Regular style with two axes, Morph and Shadow Length, and 3,058 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits posters, titles and social graphics.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Ek Type
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: Yes (MORF 0–45, SHLN 0–100)
- Glyphs: 3058
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Honk
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/honk
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Signage, Social media

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2023 The Honk Project Authors (https://github.com/EkType/Honk)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Honk free for commercial use?

Yes. The SIL Open Font License 1.1 lets you use Honk in personal and commercial work, change it and redistribute it. The font cannot be sold on its own, and derivative fonts remain under the same license. Read the license text for the exact terms.

### Who designed Honk?

Honk was designed by Noopur Datye and Yesha Goshar of Ek Type; the official notes credit the engineering to Sidharth Jaishankar and Girish Dalvi. The official page lists Ek Type as the designer.

### Is Honk a colour font?

Yes. Honk is a colour font that uses the COLRv1 and CPAL tables, so its letters carry their own colours and shadows where the software supports that format.

### Is Honk a variable font?

Yes. Honk is a variable font with two axes: Morph, from 0 to 45, and Shadow Length, from 0 to 100. It has no weight axis.

### How many weights does Honk have?

Honk has one weight, Regular 400. Variety comes from the Morph and Shadow Length axes and from the colour palettes.

### Which languages does Honk support?

Honk includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Czech.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/honk (trendhub)