Cardo
Built for classicists, biblical scholars and medievalists, and the character set is the reason to choose it: Greek including the polytonic accents, Hebrew, and the diacritics that scholarly editions need, in one file. That is by far the largest glyph set in this archive. The roman itself is a quiet old style with diagonal stress and a small x-height, drawn to sit under apparatus rather than to be noticed, which is precisely what a critical edition wants.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Greek
- Greek Extended
- Hebrew
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- David Perry
- Released
- 2002
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Academic typesetting, Body text, Books, Classical and biblical languages
- Weights
- 400, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 3,845
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Greek, Greek Extended, Hebrew
- Download size
- 565 KB
Size ladder
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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: 'Cardo';
/* 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/cardo.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Cardo', 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 Cardo free for commercial use?
- Yes. Cardo 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 Cardo in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Cardo belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to David Perry. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Cardo?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 3 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 Cardo support Turkish?
- Yes. Cardo includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Cardo support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Greek, Greek Extended and Hebrew?
- Yes. Cardo covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Greek, Greek Extended and Hebrew, across 3,845 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.