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Caveat

A handwriting family by Pablo Impallari with a 400–700 weight axis and letters that vary by position in a word.

Handwriting 4 styles · variable by Impallari Type OFL

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Caveat is a handwriting typeface designed by Pablo Impallari of Impallari Type, made for short annotations as well as longer passages. Caveat is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights, Regular to Bold. Caveat is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and covers Latin and Cyrillic.

Caveat font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Impallari Type
Classification
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
4 4 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–700
Glyphs
1,011
Languages checked
27 see the list
Last updated
version 2.000
Used for
CasualSocial media

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 Caveat; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Caveat Regular
  • Medium 500Caveat Medium
  • SemiBold 600Caveat SemiBold
  • Bold 700Caveat Bold

Caveat 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 Caveat

Caveat is a handwriting family whose letters look written quickly with a felt pen: forward-leaning strokes of even thickness, narrow capitals, mostly unjoined lowercase and a small x-height under tall ascenders. The official notes say OpenType features substitute slightly different shapes depending on where a letter falls in a word, which breaks up the repetition that gives typed handwriting away. Pablo Impallari designed it, and Google commissioned the project from Impallari Type, a foundry in Rosario, Argentina. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, named Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold; it has no italic. Its 1,011 glyphs include Latin, extended Latin and Cyrillic, and the extended Cyrillic came from Cyreal in the June 2019 update. A sister family, Caveat Brush, offers a different texture. Caveat is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Caveat works

Annotations on diagrams and screenshots
The family was designed with short notes in mind, and its pen-like line separates a comment from the material it comments on.
Handwritten asides in slides
Four weights let a note stay legible on a projector: SemiBold or Bold holds up where Regular would thin out.
Quotes for social graphics
Position-dependent letter variants keep a repeated letter from looking stamped in a short phrase.
Notes in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian
The Cyrillic subset gives handwritten captions in those languages the same hand as the Latin.
Short personal letters
The official notes also name body text as a use, so a paragraph or two of a card or letter is within its range.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,011 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
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 2014 The Caveat Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat)

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 Caveat

Alegreya Sans Sans Serif

Caveat is a handwriting face for headings; Alegreya Sans is a sans serif family with 7 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Andada Pro Serif

Caveat is a handwriting face for headings; Andada Pro is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Archivo Sans Serif

Caveat is a handwriting face for headings; Archivo is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Caveat 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: "Caveat";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Caveat-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Letter variation needs OpenType support
The position-based variants are OpenType features; software that ignores them shows the same shape every time.
No italic, and nothing lighter than 400
The weight axis runs from 400 to 700 only, and the design is already slanted.
Greek and Vietnamese are not covered
Subsets are Latin, extended Latin, Cyrillic and extended Cyrillic.

FAQs

Is Caveat free for commercial use?

Yes. Caveat is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Caveat?

Caveat was designed by Pablo Impallari; Google commissioned it from Impallari Type in Rosario, Argentina. Cyreal added the extended Cyrillic in 2019.

How many weights does Caveat have?

Caveat has four named weights: Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

Is Caveat a variable font?

Yes. Caveat is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700.

Which languages does Caveat support?

Caveat includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

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