900
grotesk
Hläst Grotesk
wght · wdth · opsz
The workhorse. Geometric skeleton, humanist finish. Starts thin, goes very heavy.
Type that does the heavy lifting.
Buy the familyPrecision is not a feature. It's the typeface.
Every curve in a Hläst font is drawn twice — once for the page, once to survive it. Our variable axis ranges are not marketing copy. They are engineering tolerances. We have one standard: the thing you set must look like you meant it.
— Live Specimen
— Our Typefaces
The workhorse. Geometric skeleton, humanist finish. Starts thin, goes very heavy.
Fixed-pitch, but not punished for it. Code, data, captions. Surprisingly warm at text size.
Only for headlines. Tight spacing, deep contrast, zero tolerance for misuse at body size.
Cut-through forms for wayfinding and packaging. The one they license for stadium signage.
Full Grotesk character set, compressed to where it makes financial sense on a menu board.
A slab-serif companion to Grotesk. Shares proportions exactly. Designed to mix.
— Licensing
For print and static
AU $149
For digital products
AU $299
For organisations
AU $1,490
— In Use
"Grotesk at 900 weight is the only thing we've ever put on the front of a building and not regretted."
Design Director, Norvik Studio
"We typeset the entire annual report in Hläst Mono. The auditors were confused. The board was not."
Brand Lead, Fargate Capital
"Hläst Display at optical size 144 is the closest thing to a cheat code I've found in twenty years of editorial work."
Creative Director, Longline Magazine
"The variable width axis on Grotesk Condensed saved our wayfinding system. Six months of iteration collapsed into an afternoon."
Partner, Fieldwork Type + Space
"We licensed Brand for the product suite and immediately understood why there's a minimum. The support alone is worth it."
Head of Design, Kolverk Systems
"Hläst Slab mixed with Grotesk is the pairing I've been assembling myself from bad free fonts for a decade. Someone finally did it properly."
Independent Type Consultant
"It renders at 10px. It renders at 200px. It renders. That's rarer than you think."
Lead Engineer, Tideform Studio