Arizonia

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Arizonia Regular

About Arizonia

Arizonia is a connected script with the look of sign painting. Its starting point, according to the official notes, was the lettering on a construction truck, and the strokes behave like those of a pointed brush: heavy on the downstroke, hair-thin on the way back up. In the specimen the lowercase leans steeply and joins in a dense, dark line, while the capitals throw out long swashes, such as the stroke that crosses the A and the tail under the Q. The notes position it for hand-lettered, contemporary and sporty work and warn against capitals-only setting, as with scripts generally. The family is a single Regular style with 652 glyphs in the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets, and it is not a variable font. Robert Leuschke designed it; the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Arizonia works

Vehicle and shop lettering

The design comes from truck lettering, and its heavy brush downstrokes read on a van door or a painted fascia.

Sports and team graphics

A steep slant and long swashes give a team name or event title the speed the official notes call sporty.

Wordmarks

Swash capitals such as A and Q make the first letter of a name the anchor of a logo.

Menu and poster headings

Strong thick-thin contrast stays visible at display sizes above plain text.

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 Arizonia

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 Arizonia 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: "Arizonia";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Arizonia-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Arizonia", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arizonia 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=Arizonia&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Not for capitals-only setting

The swash capitals overlap when set together in the specimen; they are meant to start a lowercase word.

One style

Arizonia is Regular 400 only, with no bold or lighter cut.

Latin scripts with Vietnamese

The 652 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets and no other writing system.

FAQs

Collections with Arizonia

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

Similar fonts

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