Arvo
Circles and rectangles with square serifs on them, which is what a geometric slab is, and Arvo is unusually literal about it — the o is very nearly a compass circle and the stroke barely changes weight going round it. Four static cuts and no variable version, which dates it, and a character set that stops at plain Latin: no Turkish, and not even the full set of European accents. Good in a headline, honest at small sizes, wrong for anything that has to be set in more than one language.
Alphabets
- Latin
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Anton Koovit
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Short body text, Interfaces, Signage
- Weights
- 400, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 224
- Languages
- Latin
- Download size
- 89 KB
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Arvo';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/arvo.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Arvo', serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Arvo free for commercial use?
- Yes. Arvo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Arvo in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Arvo belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Anton Koovit. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Arvo?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 4 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Arvo support Turkish?
- No. Arvo covers Latin, but not the extra characters Turkish needs — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ and ş. Turkish text set in it would come out with missing or wrong letters.
- Does Arvo support Latin?
- Yes. Arvo covers Latin, across 224 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.