Typecase

Open licence · Sans serif

Hanken Grotesk

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Hanken Grotesk webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hanken Grotesk.

Hanken Groteskthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

normal x-heightnormal widthflat contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Hanken Grotesk, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Hanken Grotesk, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.

Latoslightly rounder bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Fredoka webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fredoka.

Fredokaslightly rounder bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Cambay webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cambay.

Cambayclose on every measure

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

What $39 buys →

Hanken Grotesk as a free alternative to

Hanken Grotesk is suggested on 5 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.