Canal Grotesk — Compact Grotesque from Ordklasse
Canal Grotesk is a compact grotesque typeface drawn for sans and grotesque
Canal Grotesk is a compact grotesque with tighter apertures and a firmer, more upright stance than its neutral cousins. It sets dense and dark, which is what a label or a poster headline wants. Two weights and a variable file between them.
2 weights, 75 glyphs each, released September 2026.
Licensed for work in Denmark and everywhere else, in any language the glyph set covers.
Canal Grotesk character
Canal Grotesk text
A display face earns its keep in the two lines that carry a masthead, but it is judged on whether it survives everything around them. Canal Grotesk is set here at reading size so the question can be answered before a licence is bought rather than after.
The 2 weights are interpolated from a single skeleton, which is what keeps the rhythm even across the range: stems thicken, counters close and sidebearings tighten together rather than each weight being drawn to its own logic. Regular holds together at text size; Black closes up without filling in.
The 2 weights
Canal Grotesk Regular
Handgloves & Quartz Jockeys
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Canal Grotesk Black
Handgloves & Quartz Jockeys
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Set your own words
Set your own words
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Character set
Canal Grotesk character set
75 glyphs per weight · Basic Latin
Uppercase
Lowercase
Figures
Punctuation
U+0041 (65)
Language support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu
Features
- 75 glyphs per weight
- 2 weights, Regular to Black
- TrueType (.ttf)
- Basic Latin, Western European
- Lining figures
- Standard punctuation
Licensing overview
Full detailsWhat you get
Every family in the library, every weight, for A$55 a month. There is no per-font checkout and no licence tier to choose.
Downloads are TrueType files packaged per family, ready to install or to self-host.
Where you can use it
Web, print, advertising, packaging, products you sell, and work you produce for clients. No separate web licence, no page-view band, no headcount tier.
Client work is covered while your membership is active, including the files you hand over as part of the job.
If you stop
Work you have already shipped stays licensed permanently. A campaign does not have to come down because a subscription lapsed.
New downloads stop, and so does using the files on new work. Your saved list and download history stay where they are.
Canal Grotesk and the whole library, A$55 a month.
No per-font checkout, no licence tiers. Cancel any time. Up to 25 downloads a day.
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