Arapey

Try Arapey

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Arapey Regular Italic

About Arapey

Arapey is a serif typeface in the modern, high-contrast manner: vertical stems are sturdy, connecting strokes drop to fine hairlines and the round letters have upright stress. What sets it apart, by its own official description, is the softness of its structure and finishes. In the specimen the serifs are thin but gently bracketed, the tail of y ends in a teardrop and the a carries a ball terminal. The designer made the first sketches during a holiday in Arapey, a small town in northern Uruguay; the name is pronounced Ah-ra-pay. The family has a Regular and an Italic, both at weight 400, and no bold. Each font holds 249 glyphs in the Latin character set, enough for Western European languages. Eduardo Tunni designed Arapey, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Arapey works

Magazine headlines and standfirsts

Hairline serifs and strong stems show their contrast at large sizes above an article.

Pull quotes

The Italic, which the official notes single out for its rhythm, sets a quotation apart from surrounding text.

Invitations and menus

A calm high-contrast serif with soft finishes suits names, courses and dates on printed cards.

Book and chapter titles

Regular for the title and Italic for a subtitle give a title page two voices from one family.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Arapey

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

body {
  font-family: "Arapey", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arapey 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=Arapey:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

Arapey has Regular and Italic only, both at weight 400.

Basic Latin character set

The fonts have no Latin Extended, so Turkish, Polish and other Central European alphabets are not complete.

Reserved Font Name

The copyright notice reserves the name "Arapey", so a modified version has to be given another name.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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