HK Zercon™ Free Font
Last Updated on July 13, 2026 by Editorial Team
Just launched, HK Zercon™ is a beautiful sans serif with alternative lowercase “g” as a stylistic set.
Features
- Includes 2 fonts: HK Zercon™ (with alternative g and l as stylistic set) and HK Zercon No. 2™ (alternative g and l as a primary set)
- Extensive diacritics and language support (Latin and Latin Extended)
- Tabular and Proportional figures
- The freebie contains both installable desktop fonts (.OTF and .TTF) as well as webfonts (.WOFF, .WOFF2, .EOT)
Free for personal use.
Biggest thank you to the author, Alfredo Marco Pradil from Hanken Design Co for creating and sharing all these amazing typefaces.
The specimen here tells you exactly what HK Zercon™ is built for: highway signage, route markers, and the kind of bold directional typography you see on interstate exit signs.
Those boxed labels like “Mount73,” “Airline 280,” and the circled “T4” and “B2” badges are doing double duty. They’re showing off the alternate lowercase g, but they’re also proving how well this typeface holds up at small sizes with tight tracking, which is exactly the stress test signage lettering has to pass.
The larger “Aggressive Rouge” lockup at the bottom shifts gears and shows the font doing what most grotesque sans serifs are asked to do daily: sit comfortably as a headline, a wordmark, or a big confident statement in a layout.
That contrast between the tiny sign-style labels and the oversized display line is the real pitch of this specimen. It’s a sans serif that reads clearly in condensed, functional contexts and still has enough personality to anchor a poster or a logotype.
The Alternate G and L
The stylistic set is the detail worth understanding before you commit to a project.
HK Zercon™ ships with the standard double-story-adjacent lowercase g and l available as an optional stylistic set, so you choose when to switch it on.
HK Zercon No. 2™ flips that default, making the alternate g and l the primary shapes you get straight out of the box.
If your layout software supports OpenType stylistic sets, you can toggle between the two looks within HK Zercon™ itself rather than swapping files, which is handy when you’re testing which version fits a logotype or headline better.
The alternate g in particular has a looser, more geometric bowl that reads as friendlier and more contemporary, while the default g feels a touch more classic and grounded. Try both against your specific word before locking in a direction, since the letter g shows up more often than you’d expect and changes the whole rhythm of a line of text.
Where This Typeface Earns Its Keep
Given the signage-driven personality on display, this is a strong pick for wayfinding systems, transit-inspired branding, route number badges, and any project that wants to borrow the visual language of highway and airport signage without looking like a literal road sign.
It also works well beyond that niche. The clean geometry and tabular figures make it suitable for dashboards, pricing tables, and data-heavy interfaces where numbers need to line up and stay legible.
For branding work, HK Zercon™ suits sportswear, automotive, travel, and logistics identities, anywhere a brand wants to feel fast, functional, and a little industrial.
Editorial headlines, app UI, and packaging can all lean on it too, especially when you want a grotesque that feels current without tipping into anonymity.
Because it comes as a family with a companion cut, you can use HK Zercon™ for body copy and smaller labels, then bring in HK Zercon No. 2™ for headlines or logotypes where you specifically want that rounder g and l to define the brand’s personality.
Pair it with a monospaced font for the numeric badges and route-style labels if you want to push the signage aesthetic further, or keep it as a solo typeface and rely on weight and size contrast to build hierarchy, since a single well-built grotesque like this can often carry an entire layout on its own.
