Host Grotesk

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Host Grotesk Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Host Grotesk Regular Italic
• Medium 500Host Grotesk Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Host Grotesk SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Host Grotesk Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Host Grotesk ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

Host 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 Host Grotesk

Host Grotesk is a sans serif in the grotesque manner: plain, upright letters with strokes of nearly even thickness and round letters close to a circle. In the specimen the lowercase is tall, the a has two storeys, the ampersand takes an open, angular form and the at sign sits in a squared ring, small departures from an otherwise neutral alphabet. The family ships as two variable files, roman and italic, with a weight axis from 300 to 800. Six named weights lie on it: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, twelve styles with the italics. There is no Thin and no Black. The 448 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The font files name Doğukan Karapınar as designer and Element Type as manufacturer, and the Google Fonts listing also credits İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Host Grotesk works

Product interfaces

A tall lowercase and six weights between 300 and 800 cover labels, buttons, body copy and section titles in one family.

Landing pages

SemiBold to ExtraBold set headlines, and Light or Regular carries the supporting paragraph below.

Brand identities

The angular ampersand and squared at sign add a recognisable detail to names, e-mail addresses and taglines.

Articles and documentation

Matching italics at every weight handle emphasis, citations and terms in running text.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Host 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 Host 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: "Host Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HostGrotesk-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Host Grotesk";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HostGrotesk-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Host 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=Host+Grotesk:ital,wght@0,300..800;1,300..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weights run from 300 to 800

The axis starts at Light and ends at ExtraBold. Hairline and Black weights are not part of the family.

The default is Light

The weight axis defaults to 300, so a variable instance with no weight set appears as Light.

Latin scripts only

The 448 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

Variable files only

The package holds one variable roman and one variable italic file. Static files are available from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Host Grotesk

• Grotesque sans-serif fonts

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

Similar fonts

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