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Archivo Narrow

The narrow cut of the Archivo grotesque family: four variable weights from Regular to Bold, with italics.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Archivo Narrow is a narrow grotesque sans serif family from Omnibus-Type, part of the Archivo family. Archivo Narrow is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700: four weights from Regular to Bold, each with an italic, for eight styles. Archivo Narrow covers Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Archivo Narrow font preview card
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Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 4 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–700
Glyphs
798
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 3.002
Used for
HeadlinesBody textInterfacesEditorialCondensed

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 Narrow; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Archivo Narrow Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Archivo Narrow Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Archivo Narrow SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Archivo Narrow Bold Bold Italic

Archivo Narrow 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 Narrow

Archivo Narrow is the narrow member of Archivo, a grotesque sans serif family from Omnibus-Type. Its letters are condensed without being squeezed: bowls stay rounded, the a is double-storey, terminals are cut flat, and the lowercase is tall, so more text fits on a line. The official description says Archivo was derived from Chivo, was first drawn for headlines and highlights, and was built for print and digital use together; the family became variable in April 2020. Archivo Narrow has a weight axis from 400 to 700 with four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, and an italic for each, eight styles in all. Nothing lighter than Regular or heavier than Bold is included. The fonts hold 798 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The name table names Hector Gatti, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Archivo Narrow works

Data tables and listings
Narrow letters and figures fit more columns across a screen or page than a normal-width grotesque.
Mobile interfaces
Labels and headings take less horizontal space, and four weights give a working hierarchy.
News headlines in tight columns
Archivo comes from a headline tradition, and the Narrow cut holds a long title to fewer lines.
Dense reports and footnotes
Regular with its italic handles captions, sources and notes where space is short.
Vietnamese-language layouts
Vietnamese is among the subsets, which Archivo Black does not offer.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 798 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2019 The Archivo Narrow Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/ArchivoNarrow)

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 Narrow

Archivo Black Display

Archivo Black is the heaviest style of the same family, so it supplies a dark headline above Archivo Narrow text.

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 Narrow 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 Narrow";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArchivoNarrow-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Archivo Narrow";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArchivoNarrow-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Weight range is 400 to 700
The axis starts at Regular and ends at Bold. Lighter or heavier settings are not available.
Two variable files
Upright and italic are separate variable fonts, each with the full weight range.
No Cyrillic or Greek
Coverage is Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Is Archivo Narrow free for commercial use?

Archivo Narrow can be used free of charge in personal and commercial work under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modifying and redistributing the fonts; they cannot be sold on their own, and derivatives stay under the same license.

Who designed Archivo Narrow?

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

Is Archivo Narrow a variable font?

Yes. Archivo Narrow is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700; the family was converted to variable in April 2020.

How many weights does Archivo Narrow have?

Archivo Narrow has four weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic, for eight styles.

Which languages does Archivo Narrow support?

Archivo Narrow includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese. It has no Cyrillic or Greek.

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