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Honk

Designed by Ek Type

About

Loud, bright, and exuberantly fun! Honk is a variable colour font from Ek Type. It is a riotous digital interpretation of the bold and boisterous lettering seen on Indian trucks.

An extravaganza of form and colour, Honk is a modular system with ten distinct styles, shadows, and colour palettes. An embodiment of India's colourful complexity, it effortlessly oscillates between simple and subtle to over-the-top and ornate. It's the kind of font that doesn't just speak; it shouts, honks, and sings with its varied styles, dynamic shape-shifting and use of colorv1 technology.

Honk reflects the essence of India's vibrant spirit, and it does so with an audacious flair. So, the next time you need a font that's as lively as an Indian street corner, give Honk a try. It is a typographic adventure you won't forget!

This project is designed, engineered and maintained by Ek Type; a collective of type designers focused on designing contemporary Indian typefaces. Honk is designed by Noopur Datye and Yesha Goshar, and engineered by Sidharth Jaishankar and Girish Dalvi, emojis are designed by Athul Jayaraman and testing is done by Taresh Vohra and team Ek Type. A big honk to all the amazing designers who helped by open sourcing their color/element-based variable fonts.

This font uses the COLRv1 and CPAL tables. Please visit the gf-guide color page to learn more about Color Fonts technology.

To contribute, see github.com/EkType/Honk

Designer

Ek Type is a collaborative type design studio based in Mumbai that specialises in developing multi-script typefaces across all Indian languages. The studio is long known for its meticulous design process which gives adequate importance to script grammar and script traditions, thereby producing high-quality fonts in multiple weights, supporting multiple software platforms for a wide range of applications.

It consists of experienced type designers, researchers, and academicians spanning a wide age group whose varied skill sets complement each other. Apart from developing fonts, Ek Type also documents typographic artefacts, and creates awareness about Indian typography through workshops. In addition to this, the studio also mentors and collaborates with upcoming type designers by engaging them in the process of font development.

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Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Honk - Google Fonts