Agbalumo

Try Agbalumo

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Agbalumo Regular

About Agbalumo

Agbalumo is a display typeface whose forms come from writing with a brush pen: strokes are thick with soft, rounded ends, the letters lean to the right, and the counters are small. Lowercase letters finish in curled exit strokes without joining, and capitals such as A and J begin with a small curl. The official description states that the face was made to represent African languages; besides Latin with extended and Vietnamese letters, it contains the Ethiopic (Ge'ez) script. That range explains the 1,672 glyphs in a family with only one Regular style. Stylistic alternates are included among its OpenType features. Agbalumo is not a variable font. The official listing credits Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type and Eben Sorkin, while the font's name table names Raphael Alegbeleye and Yikun Ayalew. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Agbalumo works

Headlines in African languages

The Latin set was extended with African languages in mind, so a title does not fall back to another font in the middle of a word.

Ethiopic titles

The Ethiopic script is drawn in the same brush-pen weight, giving covers and posters in that script a matching display face.

Food and drink packaging

Thick strokes and small counters hold a product name together on labels, pouches and stickers.

Event and festival graphics

Slanted capitals with curled entries give a short name or date a hand-lettered look on banners and social posts.

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
• Vietnamese

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Ethiopic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

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

License

Fonts that pair with Agbalumo

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 Agbalumo 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.

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

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

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Agbalumo&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One heavy style

Agbalumo has Regular 400 only. The design is already heavy, and there is no lighter or italic companion.

Ethiopic yes, Cyrillic no

The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Ethiopic. Cyrillic is not present in the font.

Stylistic alternates

The official notes mention an assortment of alternates; they are reached through OpenType features in software that supports them.

Two versions of the credits

The listing names Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀, Sorkin Type and Eben Sorkin; the font file itself names Raphael Alegbeleye and Yikun Ayalew.

FAQs

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