Preview Archivo with your own text, explore every weight, and download the free font files for personal and commercial projects.
The art of good typography is rooted in clarity, rhythm, and proportion. Archivo brings a measured, contemporary voice to running copy, sitting confidently in interfaces and printed layouts alike. Set it at body size for texture, or blow it up for display to see how its personality carries.
Archivo is a modern lineal grotesque sans serif typeface, part of the sans serif family in the Google Fonts library. It was designed by Omnibus-Type and released in 2012. The family ships with a range of 9 weights plus matching italics, giving designers a complete typographic system to work with. Archivo works well for product UI, brand systems, body copy, and any context where readability matters more than personality.
Read more about Archivo9 weights, plus italic cuts. Type your own text to see every weight in your words, then adjust size, line height, and color to match the context you're designing for.
A printable spec sheet showing your text in Archivo at headline, subhead, and body scale, plus every weight, the full character set, and your custom preview.
Every letter, number, and punctuation mark in Archivo, at a glance.
Design a custom wordmark logo with Archivo, a free display font from Google Fonts. Type your brand name, choose a mark, adjust the size and letter-spacing, and export your finished logo as a PNG or PDF. Ideal for brand identity, business cards, packaging design, and any project where Archivo fits the voice.
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Archivo is a sans-serif typeface designed by Omnibus-Type and available through Google Fonts. Known for its clean letterforms and balanced proportions, it is commonly used for user interfaces, marketing copy, brand systems, and print body text where clarity is the priority.
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The family ships with multiple weights, from 100 to 900, making it suitable for both large display headlines and dense body copy. Designers reach for Archivo in product interfaces, websites, and printed materials where the typeface needs to read cleanly at every scale without imposing its own voice on the design.
When used in print, Archivo performs reliably across coated and uncoated paper stocks. For small body text on business cards, postcards, and marketing materials, weights between 400 and 600 tend to hold up best. For display and packaging work, heavier weights above 700 produce strong presence without closing up the counters.
Archivo is frequently chosen for the following contexts:
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Archivo works beautifully alongside Vollkorn. See how the two read together, or find more font inspiration for ideas.
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Archivo can work well for logos that need a clean, modern, and approachable feel. Its even letterforms read clearly at any size, which makes it a strong choice for tech brands, product wordmarks, and modern service businesses. Try a heavier weight for the wordmark and pair it with a simple symbol mark if you need one.
Archivo is a strong choice for business cards. It reads cleanly at small sizes for contact details and scales up confidently for the name or title. Use a regular or medium weight for body text and a semibold or bold for the name. Print a proof at production size before finalizing.
Archivo works well for modern packaging and product labels. It feels current and clean, which suits everything from beauty and wellness to food, beverage, and consumer tech. Use the heavier weights for the product name and lighter weights for ingredient lists or fine print.
Archivo fits modern, clean, and confident brands. It works for tech companies, design-forward services, modern retail, healthcare, and any business that wants to feel current without being trendy. The neutrality is a feature, it lets the rest of your brand system carry the personality.
Archivo pairs well with Lora, EB Garamond, or Source Serif 4. This combination balances Archivo's clean modernity with a serif's editorial warmth, useful for headline/body or UI/print pairings.
Type your own text in the preview area on this page to see Archivo rendered live. Try a brand name, headline, or sample sentence, then adjust weight, size, and styling to see how it performs. To download the full font family, click the Download button in the top section. To save your custom preview as a PDF specimen sheet, click Download PDF specimen.
Yes. Archivo is available through Google Fonts under an open-source license that permits commercial use, modification, and embedding in documents, products, and packaging without licensing fees. You can use it in client work, branding, retail products, and printed materials.
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