Amiko

Try Amiko

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Amiko Regular
• SemiBold 600Amiko SemiBold
• Bold 700Amiko Bold

About Amiko

Amiko is a plain, utilitarian sans serif that covers the Devanagari and Latin scripts. The official notes describe its purpose narrowly: body text on the web and on low-resolution screens, legible at the smallest sizes that can be set. The specimen shows why it holds up there: strokes are nearly uniform, the lowercase is tall, counters are open and the letters are spaced generously. Amiko was drawn in a studio collaboration by Pablo Impallari, Andres Torresi and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, and the project is led by Impallari Type, a foundry based in Rosario, Argentina. The family has three static weights, Regular 400, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, and no italics. Its 899 glyphs include the Devanagari character set as well as Latin and Latin Extended. Amiko is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Amiko works

Hindi and English interfaces

Devanagari and Latin drawn together let one family set labels and menus in both scripts without a change of texture.

Small text on low-resolution screens

Open counters, a tall lowercase and loose spacing are the features the designers aimed at very small sizes.

Bilingual articles

Regular for running text with SemiBold and Bold for subheads and emphasis covers a simple article hierarchy.

Captions and form hints

Even stroke weight keeps footnotes, helper text and table labels readable where space is tight.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, 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

Fonts that pair with Amiko

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 Amiko 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: "Amiko";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiko-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiko";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiko-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiko";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiko-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Amiko 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=Amiko:wght@400;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Amiko ships as Regular, SemiBold and Bold only. Emphasis has to come from weight, not slant.

Static files

The family is not a variable font; each of the three weights is a separate file.

Devanagari as a script, not a language list

The font contains the Devanagari character set; only Latin-script languages are listed individually here.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts