Darker Grotesque
Designed By
Gabriel Lam, ViệtAnh Nguyễn
7 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Darker Grotesque · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
7 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Darker Grotesque ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Concrete, glass and late nights
A Clear Hierarchy
Darker Grotesque · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
7 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Light300
Concrete, glass and late nights
Regular400
Concrete, glass and late nights
Medium500
Concrete, glass and late nights
Semi Bold600
Concrete, glass and late nights
Bold700
Concrete, glass and late nights
Extra Bold800
Concrete, glass and late nights
Black900
Concrete, glass and late nights
Darker Grotesque is small on its body. Set it at 24 px beside another sans at 24 px and its capitals come out noticeably shorter and its letters narrower, so plan on a size or 2 larger than habit tells you. Once you do, those narrow letters pack a headline tight.
Gabriel Lam, who also goes by his Vietnamese name Gia Lâm Bảo, drew it under the TypeRant name with post-modern and brutalist typography as his reference, and Google Fonts credits ViệtAnh Nguyễn with him. Google Fonts calls it an original Vietnamese typeface by a Vietnamese type designer.
7 weights, Light at 300 to Black at 900. An upgrade in 2023 fixed a few issues. 467 characters, with discretionary ligatures and case sensitive forms among the features.
The heavy end, Bold to Black, is where it gets interesting, for magazine headlines and gig posters.
Characters & Figures
467 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Darker Grotesque
7 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 217 KB ↓- Version
- 1.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/darker-grotesque-2/darker-grotesque-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Darker Grotesque', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Darker Grotesque Heading · Darker Grotesque Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.