Hanken Grotesk
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/hanken-grotesk 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/hanken-grotesk/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Hanken Grotesk Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* hanken-grotesk-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Hanken Grotesk Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/hanken-grotesk:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Hanken Grotesk is a sans serif typeface inspired by the classic grotesques. Geometry, metrics, punctuations and OpenType features have been updated to support a wide range of projects such as environmental signage, textface for books and magazines, Interface, Websites and Mobile Applications.
The Hanken Grotesk project is led by Alfredo Marco Pradil.
To contribute, see github.com/marcologous/hanken-grotesk
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/hanken-grotesk Designed by
Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co.
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License
OFL-1.1