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Archivo Black

The heaviest cut of the Archivo grotesque family from Omnibus-Type, as a one-weight headline font.

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Archivo Black is a heavy grotesque sans serif from Omnibus-Type, the black style of the Archivo family, which was first drawn for headlines and highlighted text. Archivo Black has one style with 426 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Archivo Black is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, posters and wordmarks.

Archivo Black font preview card
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Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
426
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.006
Used for
HeadlinesPostersLogosBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Archivo Black; the download contains the complete files.

Archivo Black font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Archivo Black specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Archivo Black Regular

About Archivo Black

Archivo Black is a very heavy grotesque sans serif, wide and compact, with flat stroke endings and small counters. In the specimen the a is double-storey, the curves of C, G and S close in tightly, and the figures match the capitals in height and weight. It is the black style of Archivo, a family from Omnibus-Type that the official description says was derived from Chivo, also includes normal and Narrow styles, and recalls American typefaces of the late nineteenth century. The family was made for print and digital use side by side. Archivo Black is a single font: the file is labelled Regular 400, there is no italic, and it is not variable. It holds 426 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Omnibus-Type is credited as designer, and the name table names Hector Gatti. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Archivo Black works

Front-page and section headlines
Archivo began as a headline family, and the Black cut gives the darkest level of that hierarchy.
Wordmarks and logos
Wide, compact letters with flat terminals make a solid block out of a short brand name.
Posters and covers
Small counters and heavy strokes keep large words dark and even from a distance.
Buttons and badges in a campaign
A two- or three-word label in Archivo Black stays strong at medium sizes on screen and in print.
Headings in Central European languages
Latin Extended coverage includes the accents of Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 426 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

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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2017 The Archivo Black Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/ArchivoBlack)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Archivo Black

Archivo Narrow Sans Serif

Archivo Narrow comes from the same Omnibus-Type family and gives narrow Regular to Bold text styles beneath an Archivo Black headline.

Archivo Sans Serif

Archivo is the normal-width member of the same family, sharing its grotesque structure for body text and subheads.

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 Black 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Archivo Black";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArchivoBlack-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One file, labelled Regular
The font reports weight 400 although it is the black cut of its family. There is no italic.
No Vietnamese
The 426 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended only, unlike Archivo Narrow, which adds Vietnamese.
Other weights live in sibling families
Lighter and narrower styles are published separately as Archivo and Archivo Narrow.

FAQs

Is Archivo Black free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Archivo Black may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed, but the font files cannot be sold on their own and a modified version must keep the same license.

Who designed Archivo Black?

Archivo Black is credited to Omnibus-Type, and the font's name table names Hector Gatti. The copyright notice names The Archivo Black Project Authors.

How many weights does Archivo Black have?

Archivo Black has one weight. It is the black style of the Archivo family, published as a separate single font.

What fonts pair well with Archivo Black?

Archivo and Archivo Narrow pair with Archivo Black because all three belong to the same grotesque family from Omnibus-Type.

Which languages does Archivo Black support?

Archivo Black includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Polish and Czech. Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek are not covered.

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