Castoro
Designed By
Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Paul Hanslow, Kaja Słojewska
2 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Castoro · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Castoro ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Footnotes to the 3rd edition
A Page In Castoro
Castoro · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
2 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Footnotes to the 3rd edition
Italic400
Footnotes to the 3rd edition
Tiro Typeworks first made the Latin that became Castoro for the Indic fonts it produced for Harvard University Press, and the scholarly start shows in the accents. The released version keeps the long set of diacritics for transliterating South Asian languages and adds characters for more European ones.
Its roots go further back. John Hudson built the roman as a synthesis of assorted Dutch types from the 16th to 18th centuries, and the italic came from Hudson with his Tiro colleague Paul Hanslow, with help from Kaja Słojewska.
The name is a small joke. Castor canadensis is the North American beaver, serif text faces with wide language support get called workhorses, and so Castoro is a busy beaver.
2 styles, Regular and Italic, with small caps and a caps to small caps feature for acronyms in running text. No bold, a gap in a workhorse; headings will have to come from size or from a second face. We would use it for footnoted academic prose, where those transliteration accents earn their keep.
Characters & Figures
493 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Castoro
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 123 KB ↓- Version
- 2.04
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/castoro/castoro.css">
body {
font-family: 'Castoro', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Castoro Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.