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Cardo Font Package
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. It also works well for general typesetting in situations where a high-quality Old Style font is appropriate.
Cardo Character Specimen
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Cardo Font Overview
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. It also works well for general typesetting in situations where a high-quality Old Style font is appropriate. Its large character set supports many modern languages as well as those needed by scholars. Cardo als
- Category: Serif
- Available variants: regular, italic, 700
- Supported subsets: gothic, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, menu, old-italic, runic
- Designer: David Perry
- Foundry: Google Fonts
- Variable font: No
How to Use Cardo
Cardo works well for headings, UI labels, social graphics, landing pages, and lightweight brand systems where a reliable serif style is needed.
Pair Cardo with a neutral sans serif for product interfaces, or combine it with a higher-contrast display family when you need more hierarchy in editorial layouts.
This package includes subsets reported by Google Fonts: gothic, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, menu, old-italic, runic. Always verify glyph coverage against your specific production language set before launch.
Cardo License
This font package is distributed with the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The ZIP archive includes the required OFL.txt file without modification.
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