The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Arvo
A free alternative to Clarendon.
About Arvo
- Designer
- Anton Koovit
- Released
- 2010
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Arvo is also a free alternative to…
- Clarendon → A geometric slab workhorse with even strokes and minimal bracketing. Goes for clean construction where Clarendon goes for ornament. The right pick when you want the slab silhouette without the editorial weight.
- Rockwell → Geometric slab serif drawn for both screen and print. Less monoweight than Rockwell — slightly more contrast — but the same unbracketed rectangular serifs and architectural construction. Four cuts (Roman, Italic, Roman Bold, Bold Italic).
Display + body that work together
Headlines, written under pressure
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Letters that hold their nerve
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.