Archivo

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Archivo Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Archivo ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Archivo Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Archivo Regular Italic
• Medium 500Archivo Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Archivo SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Archivo Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Archivo ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Archivo Black Black Italic

Archivo is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Archivo

Archivo is a grotesque sans serif family that was first drawn for highlights and headlines, with a look that recalls American typefaces of the late 1800s. In the specimen the strokes are sturdy and nearly even in thickness, curved letters such as c, e and s end in flat horizontal cuts, and the lowercase is tall against the capitals. The family became a variable font in 2021 and has two axes: weight, from 100 to 900, and width, from 62 to 125, which takes the design from extra condensed to expanded. Roman and italic each have nine named weights, 18 styles in total. The fonts hold 823 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Héctor Gatti and the Omnibus-Type team are named as the designers, and the files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Archivo works

Headlines that must fit a column

The width axis goes down to 62, so a long headline can be narrowed until it fits without switching to another family.

Brand systems from one file

Weight from 100 to 900 and width from 62 to 125 sit in the same variable font, which covers logotype, headings and small print.

Interface text

The tall lowercase and even strokes seen in the specimen keep Regular and Medium readable in buttons, menus and labels.

Print and web editions of one layout

The official notes say Archivo was designed for print and online platforms at once, and every weight has an italic for emphasis.

Vietnamese and European-language sites

The 823 glyphs include the accented letters for Vietnamese alongside Western and Central European languages.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Archivo

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 Archivo 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: "Archivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Archivo-Italic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Archivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Archivo-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Archivo 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=Archivo:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The default instance is SemiBold

The weight axis has its default at 600. Software that does not read variable axes may show SemiBold where Regular is expected.

Two variable files

The package holds one variable file for roman and one for italic. Both carry the weight and the width axis; there are no separate static files.

Width runs from 62 to 125

A value of 100 is the normal width. Lower values condense the letters and higher values expand them.

FAQs

Collections with Archivo

• Fonts for presentations and slides

  Sans-serif and slab-serif families that stay readable on a projector or a shared screen, with strong bolds for slide titles.

• Grotesque sans-serif fonts

  Grotesque and neo-grotesque sans-serif families: plain, sturdy, slightly irregular workhorses for branding, editorial design and interfaces.

• Variable fonts with a width axis

  Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.

Similar fonts

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