# Caveat font

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

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.

## Facts

- Classification: [Handwriting](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/handwriting)
- Designed by: Impallari Type
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 400–700)
- Glyphs: 1011
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Caveat
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/caveat
- Tagged for: Casual, Social media

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2014 The Caveat Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat)

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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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