# Farro font

> A four-weight display sans from Grayscale with a humanist skeleton and stems that flare gently at the ends.

Farro is a display sans serif from Grayscale with a European humanist outline and stems that widen slightly toward their ends. Farro has four upright weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and 428 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings and brand names.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Grayscale
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, Bold 700)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 428
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Farro
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/farro
- Tagged for: Headlines, Branding, Editorial

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2018 The Farro Project Authors (https://github.com/grayscaleltd/farro)

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

- **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.

## 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

### Is Farro free for commercial use?

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

### Who designed Farro?

Farro is credited to Grayscale. The designer field inside the font files names Aceler Chua, with Grayscale Limited as manufacturer.

### How many weights does Farro have?

Farro has four weights: Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700. There are no italics.

### Is Farro a variable font?

No. Farro is distributed as four static files.

### Which languages does Farro support?

Farro includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, French, Spanish, Polish, Czech and Turkish.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/farro (trendhub)