- Heading
- Hanken Grotesk
- Body text
- Charis SIL
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Hanken Grotesk
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Hanken Grotesk is a free font by Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co., released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 387 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 49% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
Hanken Grotesk is a sans-serif font inspired by classic grotesque typefaces, led by designer Alfredo Marco Pradil. It supports the Latin script and offers 18 styles with weights from 100 to 900. It is a variable font with 708 glyphs and is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co.
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
708
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- serious
- Design
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Hanken Grotesk has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 387 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Igbo
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
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- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Bini
…and 281 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 550
- x-height
- 49% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 3.013
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (3)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Hanken+Grotesk
- Designer’s page
- behance.net/pradil
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Hanken Grotesk font free to use?
Yes. Hanken Grotesk is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Hanken Grotesk support Cyrillic?
No, Hanken Grotesk supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Hanken Grotesk support?
Hanken Grotesk covers 387 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Hanken Grotesk a variable font?
Yes. Hanken Grotesk is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Hanken Grotesk?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Hanken Grotesk?
Hanken Grotesk was created by Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co..
What is Hanken Grotesk good for?
Judging by its design, Hanken Grotesk suits: interfaces, body text, magazines and editorial, headings.
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