Host Grotesk is a versatile uniwidth sans-serif typeface, offering both upright and italic variations across a range of weights. This typeface is meticulously crafted for optimal usage in user interfaces, by modifying and extending Poppins by Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn.

Image designed by Güzin Türkeri

Host Grotesk, designed by Doğukan Karapınar, a co-founder of Element Type.

Element Type, based across İstanbul, Amiens, and Toronto, is a hub for innovative typeface design, font creation, and custom lettering.

Mastering: ibrahim kaçtıoğlu.

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://Element-Type.github.io/HostGrotesk.

14 August 2023. Version 1.00

• Made Upright and Italic uniwidth
• Refined and redesigned drawings
• Updated character set to GF Latin Core.

9 May 2024. Version 1.001

• Bug fixes: Some glyphs had different width accros styles and weights.
• Reworked spacing.
• Reworked kerning.
• Drawing improvements.
• Tabular numbers, currency symbols.
• Tabular math symbols. They share same width but different than numbers and currencies.
• Removed ℓ (U+2113) and ₨ (U+20A8), as they were just place holders.
• Removed Alternative Quotes stylistic set that consists: /comma.ss01/quotesinglbase.ss01/quotedblbase.ss01/quotedblleft.ss01/quotedblright.ss01/quoteleft.ss01/quoteright.ss01 as they were redundant.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.