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Chango

A very fat, wide display face with a comic tone, based on letters by Mexican illustrator Ernesto García Cabral.

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Chango is a very heavy, wide display typeface published by Fontstage, based on letters drawn by the Mexican illustrator Ernesto "Chango" García Cabral. The name table credits Manuel Lupez as designer. Chango has one Regular style with 270 glyphs for Western European Latin, is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits humorous headlines.

Chango font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Fontstage
Classification
Display
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
270
Languages checked
14 see the list
Last updated
version 1.001
Used for
HeadlinesPostersCasualKids

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 Chango; the download contains the complete files.

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Chango Regular

About Chango

Chango is a display typeface with extremely thick strokes and wide, squat proportions. Counters are reduced to small slots and dots, corners are rounded, and the outlines bulge slightly, which gives the letters a soft, cartoon-like body. The lowercase is nearly as tall as the capitals, so words form a solid dark strip. The official description traces the design to lettering by Ernesto García Cabral, a Mexican illustrator nicknamed Chango, and presents the face as large, weighty and funny, meant for headline sizes. Credits vary by source: the listing names Fontstage, which also holds the copyright, while the font's name table gives Manuel Lupez as designer. Chango has one style, labelled Regular 400 despite its mass, and is not a variable font. Its 270 glyphs cover basic Latin and Western European accents. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Chango works

Comic and cartoon titles
Bulging, rounded letters derived from an illustrator's lettering match drawn artwork.
Toy and snack packaging
Fat forms with tiny counters read as friendly and loud on a small pack front.
Humorous posters
The official description points to headlines with a comic touch, such as a comedy night or a school fair.
Big numbers
Numerals are as heavy as the letters, so a price, a score or a countdown dominates the layout.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 270 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
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 (c) 2011 Fontstage (info@fontstage.com), with Reserved Font Names, "Chango"

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 Chango

Akshar Sans Serif

Chango is a display face for headings; Akshar is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cardo Serif

Chango is a display face for headings; Cardo is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Albert Sans Sans Serif

Chango is a display face for headings; Albert Sans 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 Chango 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: "Chango";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Chango-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Very small counters
The openings in a, e, B and 8 are narrow slots that close up at small sizes.
One style, labelled Regular
There is no lighter cut, bold or italic.
Basic Latin only
Chango is listed with the Latin subset; too few Latin Extended characters are present for that subset, and the Turkish ğ is not in the character map.

FAQs

Is Chango free for commercial use?

Yes. Chango is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted; the font cannot be sold on its own, and derivatives remain under the same license.

Who designed Chango?

The listing credits Chango to Fontstage, and the font's name table names Manuel Lupez as designer. The letterforms are based on lettering by the illustrator Ernesto García Cabral.

Where does the name Chango come from?

According to the official description, Chango was the nickname of Ernesto García Cabral, the Mexican illustrator whose lettering the typeface follows.

How many weights does Chango have?

Chango has one weight, labelled Regular 400 although it is drawn extremely heavy.

Which languages does Chango support?

Chango includes the letters needed for English and Western European languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian.

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