Arbutus Slab

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Arbutus Slab Regular

About Arbutus Slab

Arbutus Slab is a slab serif with thick bracketed serifs, a clear but moderate difference between thick and thin strokes, and a dark overall colour. The specimen shows round ball terminals on a, c, f, j, r and y, a curled tail on Q, wide capitals and letters set with noticeable space between them. That generous spacing is deliberate: according to the official description it lets the face be used at fairly small sizes as well as in headings. The model was the jobbing type of American printers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Karolina Lach designed Arbutus Slab, and the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co. The font has a single Regular style, without italic or bold, and 434 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Arbutus Slab works

Headlines and subheads

Thick serifs and ball terminals give a heading weight without needing a bold cut.

Posters with a period feel

The design looks back to American job printing of the 18th and 19th centuries, which suits notices, bills and announcements.

Short paragraphs and captions

Open letter spacing lets the face be set at fairly small sizes for a few lines of text.

Labels and packaging

The dark, sturdy letters stay solid on textured or coloured stock.

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
• 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

Fonts that pair with Arbutus Slab

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 Arbutus Slab 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: "Arbutus Slab";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArbutusSlab-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Arbutus Slab", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arbutus Slab 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=Arbutus+Slab&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Arbutus Slab has Regular 400 only. There is no italic or bold, so it cannot carry emphasis within a paragraph.

Reserved name

The license notice lists ArbutusSlab as a Reserved Font Name; a modified version must be renamed.

Listed as serif at the source

Google Fonts files Arbutus Slab under serif. This page classes it as slab serif, as its name and letterforms indicate.

FAQs

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