Arvo

Arvo is a geometric slab-serif typeface family suited for screen and print.
Family includes 4 cuts: Roman, Italic, Roman Bold, Bold Italic.
It is a free typeface distributed through the Open Font Library.

 

The flavour of the font is rather mixed. It is monolinearish, but has a tiny bit of contrast, (to save some legibility on Mac OSX). The name Arvo is a typical Estonian male name which is not used very widely nowadays. In Finnish language, Arvo means “number, value, worth”. Considering the amount of programming is behind the process, the allusion to numbers is more than accurate.

Arvo cuts

Regular
Regular Italic
Bold
Bold Italic

Uppercase

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVÕÄÖÜ

Lowercase

abcdefghijklmnoprstuvõäöü

Numbers

0123456789

Cyrillic Uppercase

АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ

Cyrillic Lowercase

абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя

Supported Languages

West and east european languages.
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Chiga, Congo Swahili, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luo, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Vunjo, Zulu.

Individual styles

  • Arvo Regular
  • Arvo Regular Italic
  • Arvo Bold
  • Arvo Bold Italic

In use

German Green Party Visual Identity 2016–

Zielinski & Rozen

Guide to Sacred Places, Estonia

Gentleman’s Hardware.

Shool Psychology helpline. Ministry of Education, Estonia.

M&S Autumn Collection. Tallinn.

Anton Koovit