Chivo

Try Chivo

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Chivo Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Chivo ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Chivo Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Chivo Regular Italic
• Medium 500Chivo Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Chivo SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Chivo Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Chivo ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Chivo Black Black Italic

Chivo 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 Chivo

Chivo is a grotesque sans serif family and, according to its publisher, the first grotesque from Omnibus-Type; the name is Spanish for goat. In the specimen the letters are wide and upright with nearly uniform strokes, the c, e and s close on flat horizontal terminals, the a is double-storey and the Q's tail crosses its bowl. The official notes single out Black for highlights and headlines and Regular for continuous reading. In October 2022 the family was rebuilt as a variable font spanning Thin to Black with italics to match, and its glyph set grew to serve more languages. The weight axis runs from 100 to 900 with nine named weights in roman and italic, 18 styles across two variable files. The fonts contain 811 glyphs with Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese subsets. Héctor Gatti developed the family, which is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Chivo works

Front-page style headlines

Black 900 is the weight the publisher points to for highlights, and its wide letters fill a column.

Article text

Regular with its italic handles continuous reading, with Medium and SemiBold for subheads.

Interface type scales

A 100 to 900 axis lets a design system choose intermediate weights for labels, values and states.

Vietnamese editions

The Vietnamese subset carries the stacked diacritics that language needs, in every weight and italic.

Brand systems on one family

Eighteen styles cover display, text and small print without a second typeface.

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 Chivo

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 Chivo 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: "Chivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Chivo-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Chivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Chivo-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Chivo 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=Chivo:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate files, each holding the full 100 to 900 range.

Weight is the only axis

There is no width or optical size axis.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Subsets are Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts