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Archivo

Archivo is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. At its regular weight it looks darker on the page than 75% of the sans serifs, by ink coverage. It sets a narrower lowercase than 65% of the 732 sans serifs.

Outlines drawn from the Archivo file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Archivo	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	723	740
Cap height (top of H)	686	702
x-height (top of x)	526	519
Descender (foot of p)	−173	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.77	0.70
Average lowercase width	496	522
Ink coverage, a–z	43.8%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Archivo	Added
Archivo Black	lowercase wider by 117; static files only	2012
Archivo Narrow	lowercase narrower by 93	2012

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Montserrat, Montserrat Underline; just above: Chiron Hei HK, Kosugi; level with: Archivo Narrow, DM Sans, Fira Sans Condensed

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: SUSE, Amarna; just above: Cossette Texte, Josefin Sans

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Width	wdth	62 to 125	99 families
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 834 glyphs and 653 mapped Unicode characters; 21 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, slashed zero and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Litershorter x-height, wider Nevermindshorter x-height, wider Xmindshorter x-height, wider Istok Webshorter x-height, narrower Radio Canada Bigtaller x-height, wider Arimotaller x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Aleoshorter x-height, wider Redaction 100shorter x-height, wider Codataller x-height, wider

Rank every family against Archivo

Same designer

Omnibus-Type is credited on 31 other families in the library, from Unna (2011) to Asap Sharp (2026); the closest of them in x-height and width is Asap.