Arimo

Try Arimo

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Arimo Regular Italic
• Medium 500Arimo Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Arimo SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Arimo Bold Bold Italic

Arimo 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 Arimo

Arimo is a sans serif family designed by Steve Matteson with character widths that match a widely installed system sans serif, so a document set in one can be opened with the other and its lines will not reflow. The specimen shows plain, upright letters with strokes of almost even thickness, a double-storey a and a g with a single bowl. Arimo is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700; Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold each have an italic, eight styles in all. The fonts contain 3,244 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Vietnamese. According to the official notes the family received an update in April 2026, when it was reissued under the Open Font License. The name table lists Monotype Imaging as manufacturer.

Where Arimo works

Office documents shared across platforms

Arimo keeps the character widths of the system font it stands in for, so page breaks and line endings stay where the author put them.

Multilingual documents

Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew sit in the same 3,244-glyph fonts as Latin, so a mixed-language report needs only one family.

Body text on screens

The official notes cite improved on-screen readability, and Regular with its italic covers running text and emphasis.

Forms and reports with a clear hierarchy

Medium, SemiBold and Bold give three steps of emphasis above Regular for labels, headings and totals.

PDF and template generation

Width compatibility lets server-side templates be rendered with an open font and still match the layout designed on a desktop.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, 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 Arimo

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arimo 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=Arimo:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weights stop at Bold

The weight axis runs from 400 to 700. There are no light or black weights.

Two variable files

The package has one variable file for roman and one for italic; static files are not included.

Widths are matched, not copied shapes

Compatibility concerns the advance widths of the characters. The letterforms themselves are Steve Matteson's own drawing.

FAQs

Collections with Arimo

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

Similar fonts

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