Open licence · Serif
Arvo
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Arvo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Arvo.
Measured character
Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.
Fonts similar to Arvo, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Arvo, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Solway webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Solway.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Amethysta webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Amethysta.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Belgrano webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Belgrano.
These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Arvo as a free alternative to
Arvo is suggested on 11 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.
- Archer same classification
- Belizio same classification
- Glypha same classification
- ITC Lubalin Graph same classification
- Lexia same classification
- Memphis same classification
- Museo Slab same classification
- Rockwell same classification
- Rockwell Nova same classification
- Serifa same classification
- Suisse Neue same classification
In the app
Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.