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Aboreto

Thin, high-contrast capitals revived from a 15th-century Florentine alphabet; lowercase keys give capitals too.

Display 1 style by Dominik Jáger OFL

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Aboreto is an all-capitals display typeface by Dominik Jáger, a revival of an early Renaissance alphabet by the Florentine sculptor Luca della Robbia. Thin, high-contrast strokes end in tapers instead of full serifs. Aboreto has one Regular style with 349 glyphs, is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits titles, logos and elegant headings.

Aboreto font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Dominik Jáger
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
349
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.001; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
Used for
HeadlinesLogosBrandingElegant

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Aboreto; the download contains the complete files.

Aboreto font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Aboreto specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Aboreto Regular

About Aboreto

Aboreto is a display typeface made of capital letters only; typing lowercase gives the same capitals. It revives a majuscule alphabet by Luca della Robbia, a fifteenth-century sculptor from Florence, and the official description stresses that it is a reinterpretation, not a tracing, since the source lacked some letters used today. Structurally it is close to a sans serif: strokes taper or thicken slightly at their ends, hinting at serifs without drawing them. The stress is vertical, the contrast between thick and thin is high, and the weight is on the light side. In the specimen the O is nearly circular, the R kicks out a curved leg and the Q carries a long tail. Aboreto has one Regular style with 349 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Dominik Jáger designed it, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Aboreto works

Fashion and beauty wordmarks
Light, high-contrast capitals with circular O shapes make a spare wordmark when letterspaced.
Magazine and lookbook titles
A short title in Aboreto contrasts with dense text columns because of its thin strokes and wide rounds.
Wedding stationery headings
Names and dates set in capitals take on a carved, classical look; details go in a text face.
Museum and gallery graphics
The Renaissance source gives exhibition titles and wall headings a link to the period.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 349 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2022 The Aboreto Project Authors (https://github.com/domija/Aboreto)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Aboreto

Afacad Sans Serif

Aboreto is a display face for headings; Afacad is a sans serif family with 4 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Bodoni Moda Serif

Aboreto is a display face for headings; Bodoni Moda is a serif family with 6 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Albert Sans Sans Serif

Aboreto is a display face for headings; Albert Sans is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Aboreto on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Aboreto";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Aboreto-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Aboreto", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Aboreto with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Capitals only
Lowercase input is drawn as capitals, so mixed-case text cannot be set.
Thin strokes need size
The design is light with fine hairlines and has no heavier cut; it is meant for large settings.
One style
Aboreto has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

FAQs

Is Aboreto free for commercial use?

Yes. Aboreto is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted; the font cannot be sold on its own, and derivatives remain under the same license.

Who designed Aboreto?

Aboreto was designed by Dominik Jáger. It is based on an early Renaissance capital alphabet by the sculptor Luca della Robbia.

Does Aboreto have lowercase letters?

No. Aboreto is an all-capitals typeface; lowercase keys produce capital letters.

How many weights does Aboreto have?

Aboreto has one weight, Regular 400, a thin high-contrast cut. There is no bold or italic.

Which languages does Aboreto support?

Aboreto includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Italian, French, Czech, Turkish, Polish and Romanian.

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