Arima

Try Arima

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Arima Thin
• ExtraLight 200Arima ExtraLight
• Light 300Arima Light
• Regular 400Arima Regular
• Medium 500Arima Medium
• SemiBold 600Arima SemiBold
• Bold 700Arima Bold

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

About Arima

Arima is a display family with rounded stroke ends and a gentle calligraphic movement. The official notes say contrast was kept low so the letters render well on screens, including low-resolution phones, and that the design aims at headlines, brand names and similar web uses. In the specimen stems curve slightly and end in soft flicks, the k is drawn with a loop, the y has a curled tail, and the ampersand is an open looping form. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 700 and seven named weights from Thin to Bold; there are no italics. Its 1,350 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Greek, Tamil and Malayalam. The Greek was developed by Rosalie Wagner during Google Summer of Code 2017. NDISCOVER, a foundry based in Portugal, leads the project, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Arima works

Web headlines

Low contrast and soft terminals were tuned for screens, so a heading keeps its shape on phones.

Brand names and logos

Seven weights from Thin to Bold give a wordmark a light, airy version and a strong one in the same letterforms.

Titles in Tamil or Malayalam alongside Latin

Tamil and Malayalam character sets sit in the same family as the Latin and share its soft stroke endings.

Greek headings

A Greek character set lets the same display style carry titles in Greek.

Packaging and menus

Curved stems and the looped k give short product names a hand-drawn warmth.

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
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Greek, Malayalam, Tamil. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, malayalam, tamil, 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 Arima

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 Arima 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: "Arima";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Arima-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arima 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=Arima:wght@100..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

All seven named styles are upright.

Heaviest weight is Bold

The axis ends at 700; there is no ExtraBold or Black.

One variable file

The download is a single variable font containing the whole 100 to 700 range.

FAQs

Collections with Arima

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

Similar fonts

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