Commercial · Display · Hoefler&Co
Knockout
Knockout is a licensed font from Hoefler&Co: $169, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Knockout is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Jonathan Hoefler
- Released
- 1994
- Styles
- 32
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- $169 (Knockout Series A (one of seven series); Knockout Complete, all 32 styles, $799. Prices read from typography.com’s product JSON (the same data the styles page renders); shown on the page as US dollar amounts.) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Thirty-two condensed and extended sans styles in the manner of American job-printing grotesques and wood types, reworking Hoefler’s Champion Gothic. First used in The New York Times Magazine in 1994.
Free alternatives to Knockout
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Knockout is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Oswald webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Oswald.
commonly substituted
A condensed gothic in several weights that fills the same headline role as Knockout’s narrow series.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The League Gothic webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not League Gothic.
same classification
A condensed American gothic revival; a single width and weight.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Anton webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Anton.
same classification
A heavy condensed sans for headlines, close to Knockout’s bolder narrow cuts.
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