Honk
Honk is a colour font built from the painted lettering on Indian trucks, and it is as loud as that sounds: layered shadows, hard outlines and palettes of pink and yellow, with two axes that reshape the letters and lengthen the shadow. It is a modular system rather than a single alphabet. The download is the real thing in full colour. The specimen on this page is not, and there is a note below explaining why.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Specification
- Designer
- Ek Type
- Foundry
- Ek Type
- Released
- 2023
- Category
- Display
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Posters, Titles, Album art, Packaging
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 3,216
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 1.5 MB
Size ladder
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Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Honk';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/honk.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Honk', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Honk free for commercial use?
- Yes. Honk is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Honk in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Honk belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Ek Type. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Honk?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Honk support Turkish?
- Yes. Honk includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Honk support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Honk covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 3,216 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Why is the Honk specimen on this page black and white when the font is in colour?
- Because the preview file cannot carry the colour. Honk stores its palettes in the COLR and CPAL tables, and the subsetter this site uses to cut previews down to a Latin character set drops both — with or without the axes pinned, which was checked. What you see above is the font’s own monochrome fallback, the same outlines any renderer without colour support would draw, so it is honest but it is not the whole face. The zip you download is the complete file: install it and it is pink and yellow with a shadow, in any application that supports colour fonts, and in every current browser.