Livvic

Try Livvic

Weights and styles

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

About Livvic

Livvic is a sans serif family that began as a custom typeface for the UK insurer LV=, drawn during a redesign of its brand. Jacques Le Bailly drew the roman as an upright italic: the lowercase a is single-storey, the y ends in a curved tail, and several strokes borrow from handwriting, which adds an informal note to an otherwise plain sans. The italic shares its metrics with the roman but is constructed differently. The family runs from Thin 100 to Black 900 in eight weights; there is no ExtraBold 800. With italics that makes 16 styles, delivered as static files and not as a variable font. The fonts hold 785 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and they are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Livvic works

Brand identity systems

Eight weights with italics give one family the range for a logo line, headings, body copy and legal small print.

Interface text

The single-storey a and open shapes keep Regular and Medium friendly in buttons, forms and help text.

Brochures and marketing copy

Italics that match the roman's metrics let emphasis be added without changing how a paragraph sets.

Large headlines

Black 900 is heavy enough for campaign headlines, while Thin 100 serves oversized display lines.

Vietnamese-language material

The Vietnamese subset is included, so the same styles carry over to Vietnamese versions of a document.

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 Livvic

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 Livvic 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: "Livvic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Livvic-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Livvic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Livvic-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Livvic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Livvic-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Livvic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Livvic-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 12 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Livvic 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=Livvic:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No ExtraBold

The weight scale jumps from Bold 700 to Black 900; an 800 weight is not part of the family.

Static files only

Livvic comes as 16 separate TTF files. It is not a variable font, so intermediate weights cannot be set.

An upright italic as roman

The upright styles use cursive constructions such as the single-storey a, which is a deliberate part of the design, not an alternate.

FAQs

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