Volkhov

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Volkhov Regular Italic
• Bold 700Volkhov Bold Bold Italic

About Volkhov

Volkhov is a serif family with thick, even strokes and a sturdy build intended for reading. The official notes list the features that serve that aim: large open counters, rather short descenders and blunt asymmetric serifs. The specimen bears this out, with a tall lowercase, wide round letters and wedge-shaped serifs that differ from left to right. There are four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. The notes add that spacing in the Bold is slightly looser than in the Regular, because the extra weight was grown mostly inwards, and that the Italic is steeply inclined and calligraphic in character. Google Fonts and the license credit Cyreal, while the notes name Ivan Petrov as designer. The 221 glyphs stay within the Latin subset, covering Western European languages; French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

Where Volkhov works

Body text on screens

Low contrast and large open counters keep letters clear at reading sizes.

Compact editorial layouts

Short descenders allow tighter line spacing, which the notes describe as economic for complex text settings.

Headlines over the same text face

Bold, with its looser spacing, sets titles without bringing in a second family.

Quotations and emphasis

The steep, calligraphic Italic contrasts clearly with the sober Regular inside a paragraph.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

Fonts that pair with Volkhov

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 Volkhov 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: "Volkhov";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Volkhov-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Volkhov";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Volkhov-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Volkhov";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Volkhov-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Volkhov";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Volkhov-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Volkhov", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Volkhov 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=Volkhov:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights, not four

The official notes speak of a four-weight family; the files are Regular and Bold with their italics.

Western European coverage

Letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian are not in the font, and French is missing the rare capital Ÿ.

Reserved name

The license reserves the font name Volkhov, so modified versions need another name.

FAQs

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