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The Anatomy of a Typeface

By FontSide · June 2026

Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.

A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.

Specimen Scale

Preview Text

Weights

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

18px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

14px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character Map

Uppercase

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Lowercase

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

Numerals

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Symbols

!

?

.

,

;

:

—

…

“

”

‘

’

(

)

[

]

{

}

/

\

@

#

$

%

&

*

+

−

=

Thin 100 Italic Amsterdam

Thin 100 Barcelona

Extra Light 200 Italic Casablanca

Extra Light 200 Dublin

Light 300 Italic Edinburgh

Light 300 Frankfurt

Regular 400 Italic Geneva

Regular 400 Helsinki

Medium 500 Italic Istanbul

Medium 500 Jakarta

Semi Bold 600 Italic Kyoto

Semi Bold 600 London

Bold 700 Italic Moscow

Bold 700 Nairobi

Extra Bold 800 Italic Osaka

Extra Bold 800 Paris

Black 900 Italic Qingdao

Black 900 Rome

Package Manager

The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.

1. Install Package

pnpm add @fontsource-variable/chivo-mono

2. Import in App

import '@fontsource-variable/chivo-mono/wght.css';

3. CSS Usage

body {
  font-family: "Chivo Mono Variable", monospace;
}

Google Fonts CDN

Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.

HTML <head>

<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->

Fontsource CDN

Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.

Global CSS

/* chivo-mono-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
  font-family: "Chivo Mono Variable";
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
  font-weight: 100 900;
  src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/chivo-mono:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
    format("woff2-variations");
}

Background & Story

Chivo (‘goat’ in Spanish) is the first Omnibus-Type neo-grotesque typeface family. Its solidness and balanced strokes give Chivo both elegance and practicality.

Chivo Mono is the monospace sibling of Chivo. Likewise, Chivo Mono is a variable font ranging from Thin to Black with matching Italics.

The family was developed by Héctor Gatti. To contribute, see github.com/Omnibus-Type/Chivo.

Tags & Moods

CalmLoudRuggedMonospaceGrotesqueVariable

Subsets

latinlatin extvietnamese

Chivo Mono