Hanken Grotesk

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900· OFL-1.1· Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co.

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mcpConnect your agent — pair Hanken Grotesk live

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared fonts endpoint and your agent can search this exact catalog and suggest pairings — list_fonts and suggest_fonts, read-only, no key.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/fonts/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-fonts https://mcp.brandsweets.com/fonts/mcp

try this prompt

›find me a heading font that pairs with Hanken Grotesk

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A free alternative to

Hanken Grotesk ranks in the top three free, open-licensed alternatives to Neue Haas Grotesk, Akzidenz-Grotesk, Founders Grotesk and 3 more on our published similarity score. Commercial names identify the typeface only; we never host them.

Pairs well with

Open Sans

sans300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800

Steve Matteson · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Roboto

sansroboto100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Christian Robertson, ParaType, Font Bureau · Apache-2.0

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Inter

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Rasmus Andersson · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Lato

sans100 · 300 · 400 · 700 · 900

Łukasz Dziedzic · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Montserrat

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly · OFL-1.1

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fits heading; hand-vetted

Poppins

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn, Ninad Kale · OFL-1.1

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fits heading; hand-vetted

More sans fonts

Open Sans

sans300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800

Steve Matteson · OFL-1.1

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Roboto

sansroboto100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Christian Robertson, ParaType, Font Bureau · Apache-2.0

View specimen →

Inter

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Rasmus Andersson · OFL-1.1

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Montserrat

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly · OFL-1.1

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Noto Sans JP

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Google · OFL-1.1

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Poppins

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn, Ninad Kale · OFL-1.1

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Self-host embed

Hanken Grotesk is free to self-host under OFL-1.1. Drop these @font-face rules into your CSS — the .woff2 files are served straight from BrandSweets.

css

@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 100;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-100.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 200;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-200.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-300.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-400.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-500.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 600;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-600.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-700.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 800;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-800.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 900;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-900.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 100;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-100i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 200;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-200i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-300i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-400i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 500;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-500i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-600i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-700i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 800;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-800i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hanken Grotesk";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 900;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/hanken-grotesk/hanken-grotesk-900i.woff2") format("woff2");
}

/* Usage */
.heading { font-family: "Hanken Grotesk", sans-serif; }

License & attribution

License: OFL-1.1
Designed by: Alfredo Marco Pradil, Hanken Design Co.
Weights: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Languages: cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese

Machine-readable: font.md

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