Sans serif · Lucas LE BIHAN
Sporting Grotesque
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CSSfont-family: 'Sporting Grotesque', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Sporting Grotesque is a free sans serif by Lucas LE BIHAN, from Velvetyne. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Sporting Grotesque has an x-height taller than 85%, is wider than 95% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 68%. Its thickest strokes are 1.4 times its thinnest: moderate stroke contrast.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Mattone
Sporting Grotesque on one light table with its two closest fonts, Mattone (86 out of 100) and Unbounded (85). Mattone is 24% heavier; Unbounded is 11% heavier and 3% wider.
Sporting Grotesque and Mattone laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Sporting GrotesqueMattone…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Sporting Grotesque alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
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- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Weights
Sporting Grotesque in 2 weights
2 weights, 400–700
- 400 Regular
- 700 Bold
04 / Facts
Who made Sporting Grotesque, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Lucas LE BIHAN
- Kind
- Sans serif
- Styles
- 2 weights, 400–700
- From
- Velvetyne
- Character sets
- latin
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes, under another name. Not as “Sporting Grotesque”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Sporting Grotesque is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Sporting Grotesque comes from Velvetyne. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from Velvetyne first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Sporting Grotesque, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Sporting Grotesque under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Sporting Grotesque, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 55.5% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 77.7% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.71lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 66.7% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 45%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 1.44 : 1moderate stroke contrast
Where it stands among sans serifs
Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind
x-heightLarger than 85% of sans serifs
WidthWider than 95% of sans serifs
InkDarker than 68% of sans serifs
ContrastMore contrast than 89% of sans serifs
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Sporting Grotesque
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Mattone8624% heavier
- Unbounded8511% heavier · 3% wider
- Special Gothic Expanded One8250% heavier · x-height 7% shorter
- Zalando Sans Expanded79x-height 7% shorter · 6% narrower · 8% lighter
- BIZ UDPGothic7516% lighter · 7% narrower · less stroke contrast
- Krona One7310% wider · 17% heavier · less stroke contrast
All 100 fonts similar to Sporting Grotesque →Compare side by side →Get Sporting Grotesque on Velvetyne
07 / Swap
Swap Sporting Grotesque without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Mattone86text 3.0% narrower · x-height 0.9% taller
- Unbounded85text 2.1% narrower · x-height 2.0% taller
- Michroma52text 1.9% wider · x-height 1.4% taller
Fallback while it loads
Until Sporting Grotesque loads, this sets Arial in its place at 139.4% of its size, so running text keeps Sporting Grotesque’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Sporting Grotesque Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 139.38%;
ascent-override: 76.20%;
descent-override: 40.97%;
line-gap-override: 1.36%;
}
font-family: 'Sporting Grotesque', 'Sporting Grotesque Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Sporting Grotesque
Answered from its licence, Velvetyne and each app’s own font list
Is Sporting Grotesque free for commercial use?
Yes. Sporting Grotesque is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Sporting Grotesque”.
How do I download and install Sporting Grotesque?
Sporting Grotesque comes free from Velvetyne . On its repository there, download the files as a ZIP and unzip it: the fonts are in its webfonts folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses are FontKind’s own copy, kept with its licence file .
Is Sporting Grotesque in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Sporting Grotesque comes from Velvetyne. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Sporting Grotesque have?
Sporting Grotesque comes in two weights: Regular (400) and Bold (700).
Who designed Sporting Grotesque?
Sporting Grotesque was designed by Lucas LE BIHAN.
What fonts are similar to Sporting Grotesque?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Mattone (86), Unbounded (85) and Special Gothic Expanded One (82), out of 100. Next to Sporting Grotesque, Mattone is 24% heavier. See all 100 fonts like Sporting Grotesque.