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Hanken Grotesk

Hanken Grotesk is a sans serif font in 9 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 3% narrower than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 2 September 2025.

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Hanken Grotesk Regular
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Editing a PDF that uses Hanken Grotesk

Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Hanken Grotesk from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Hanken Grotesk itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.

Measured metrics

Average lowercase letter width503.7 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width636.3 units per 1000 em
Word space260 units per 1000 em
Digitstabular (every digit is 560 units wide, so columns of numbers line up)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m27%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
CategorySans serif

Weights and styles

Languages beyond basic Latin

Open fonts closest to Hanken Grotesk

Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.

  1. Heebo Regularsimilar widths (27.4 units)
  2. Roboto Regularsimilar widths (29.4 units)
  3. Vazirmatn Regularloosely similar widths (31 units)
  4. Questrial Regularloosely similar widths (31 units)
  5. Ubuntu Regularloosely similar widths (31 units)
  6. Ubuntu Sans Regularloosely similar widths (31.2 units)
  7. Aileron Regularloosely similar widths (31.4 units)
  8. Lato Regularloosely similar widths (33.9 units)

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Questions people ask

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Hanken Grotesk?

Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Hanken Grotesk itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.

+Is Hanken Grotesk free to use?

Hanken Grotesk is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.

+Which font is closest to Hanken Grotesk?

By measured letter widths, Heebo is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 27.4 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.

+Which languages does Hanken Grotesk support?

It includes these character sets: Cyrillic Extended, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.

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