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Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
2 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Arvo
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.683
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.164
contrast
Low
0.175
letter width
Normal
1.057
Web embed
Use Arvo on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Arvo:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Arvo */
body {
font-family: 'Arvo', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Arvo
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Anton Koovit
- Added to Google Fonts
- November 17, 2010
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Arvo font
Arvo is a serif typeface designed by Anton Koovit, first released to Google Fonts on November 2010. It ships with 2 weights · italic and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 68% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Arvo against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Arvo is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.