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Areal

The typeface used throughout this site.

Specimen

Arrow keys adjust each axis. Left for weight, right for monospace, up for slant, down for dark-mode adjustment. Hold Shift to decrease that axis.

Weight 400Mono 0%Slant 0.0°Dark mode 0.00

About Areal

Dinamo drew Areal for Are.na, rebuilding Arial with its familiar shapes intact. I use it throughout this site, including the monospace you'll find in code.

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Regular, bold, and mono

Regular400
A place for things worth keeping.
Bold700
A place for things worth keeping.
Mono400
A place for things worth keeping.

Proportional letters for reading. Equal widths for code. One family for both.

Letter by letter

AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz0123456789
A small selection from Areal. Familiar letters, redrawn by hand.

Credits and thanks

Dinamo
Typeface design. Thank you for making Areal available.
Are.na
Areal’s original home. Read the story of how it came to be.
Cal.com
The inspiration for giving this site’s typeface a page of its own.