Farro

Try Farro

Weights and styles

• Light 300Farro Light
• Regular 400Farro Regular
• Medium 500Farro Medium
• Bold 700Farro Bold

About Farro

Farro is a sans serif that its publisher describes as an artsy display typeface with a European humanist silhouette. The character is in the details the specimen shows: vertical stems swell a little where they end, as in F, r and the legs of A; curves on a, e and o are slightly squared; the J drops below the baseline; and braces and quotation marks are drawn heavy. The lowercase is large and open, so the face stays clear in subheads as well as titles. Four static weights make up the family, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, with no italic and no weight between Medium and Bold. The fonts contain 428 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The catalogue credits Grayscale, the name table names Aceler Chua as designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Farro works

Editorial headlines

Flared stem ends give large titles a drawn quality that a strictly uniform sans does not have.

Brand names and packaging

The descending J and squared curves make a short name distinct in Medium or Bold.

Subheads and intros

A large open lowercase keeps Light and Regular readable at subhead size.

Cultural posters and programmes

Four weights are enough for a title, a date line and credits in one voice.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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

Fonts that pair with Farro

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 Farro 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: "Farro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Farro-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Farro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Farro-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Farro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Farro-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Farro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Farro-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Farro 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=Farro:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

All four styles are upright, so titles of works and emphasis need another solution.

A gap between 500 and 700

There is no SemiBold: the step from Medium to Bold is a visible jump.

Details show at size

The flaring of the stems is subtle and disappears in small text, where Farro reads as a plain sans.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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