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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
6 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Host Grotesk
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.709
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.153
contrast
Low
0.164
letter width
Normal
0.992
Web embed
Use Host Grotesk on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Host+Grotesk:wght@300;400;500;600;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Host Grotesk */
body {
font-family: 'Host Grotesk', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Host Grotesk
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Host Grotesk.
Details
- Family
- Host Grotesk
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Element Type, Doğukan Karapınar, İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 5, 2024
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Host Grotesk font
Host Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface designed by Element Type and Doğukan Karapınar and İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu, first released to Google Fonts on November 2024. It ships with 6 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 71% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Host Grotesk against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Host Grotesk is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.