Cardo

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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, Türkçe, Greek, Greek Extended, Hebrew

Download size

565 KB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/cardo

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 Türkçe 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.

What languages does Cardo support?

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.

What weights does Cardo come in?

Cardo comes in 2 weights: Regular (400) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Cardo?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 35 KB against 144 KB for the complete file, 76% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Cardo as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is cardo.woff2, and it is about 144 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.