Taruno Wide

Name: Taruno Wide
Author: Arwan Sutanto

Taruno Wide delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Arwan Sutanto80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Ways to Use Taruno Wide

Best Font Pairings for Taruno Wide

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Taruno Wide, including combinations with Lonely Ghost, Ornamika and Soffiti.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Taruno Wide Editorial Specimen

Taruno Wide in Editorial Context

Taruno Wide is a sans serif typeface by Arwan Sutanto suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Arwan Sutanto

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Taruno Wide demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Taruno Wide supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Arwan Sutanto, Taruno Wide balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Taruno Wide Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Taruno Wide Specimen

Taruno Wide

Taruno Wide is a sans serif typeface by Arwan Sutanto built for display contexts.

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Taruno Wide

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Taruno Wide— sans serif typeface

Taruno WideBy Arwan Sutanto

Taruno WideTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Taruno Wide Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Taruno Wide for Paragraphs

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Taruno Wide, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Taruno Wide demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Taruno Wide for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Taruno Wide small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Taruno Wide delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Taruno Wide italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Taruno Wide bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Taruno Wide typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Taruno Wide typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Taruno Wide'; }

Quick Start

Taruno Wide Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Taruno+Wide:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Taruno+Wide:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Taruno Wide';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Taruno+Wide:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Taruno Wide CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Taruno Wide', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Taruno Wide', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'taruno-wide': ['Taruno Wide', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-taruno-wide">Your text here</p>

About

About Taruno Wide

Arwan Sutanto

Sans Serif

Open Source

Taruno Wide font is a grotesk modern wide sans-serif designed for sports typography and athletic brand communications. This dynamic typeface delivers horizontal presence through wide proportions, suitable for sports teams, athletic apparel, and fitness brands. Taruno Wide works effectively for jersey lettering, stadium signage, and sports marketing requiring bold horizontal emphasis. The wide construction creates powerful athletic statements. Particularly suited for professional sports and athletic lifestyle brands. Pairs with condensed variants for flexible sports systems.

Taruno Wide was crafted by Arwan Sutanto. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Taruno Wide features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Taruno Wide is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Taruno Wide

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Taruno Wide

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Taruno Wide's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Taruno Wide within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Taruno Wide maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Arwan Sutanto. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Taruno Wide

Taruno Wide represents a Lineal typeface, grounded in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith indexes Taruno Wide in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Taruno Wide

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Taruno Wide based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Taruno Wide Accessibility Profile

Taruno Wide achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Legibility Analysis: Taruno Wide

Taruno Wide draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Taruno Wide?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Taruno Wide: Comfort in Extended Reading

Taruno Wide provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Taruno Wide Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Taruno Wide. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Taruno Wide at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with Taruno Wide: Best Practices

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Taruno Wide. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Taruno Wide in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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Internationalization

Taruno Wide Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 348 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

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License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Taruno Wide is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Taruno Wide ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'taruno-wide': ['Taruno Wide', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-taruno-wide">Your text here</p>

Taruno Wide

Best Ways to Use Taruno Wide

Best Font Pairings for Taruno Wide

Test Taruno Wide Font Pairings Live

In Context

Taruno Wide Typography

Taruno Wide

Character Set

Type Scale

Taruno Wide for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Taruno Wide Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Taruno Wide

How Readable is Taruno Wide?

Taruno Wide: Comfort in Extended Reading

Taruno Wide Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Taruno Wide: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Taruno Wide

Best Ways to Use Taruno Wide

Best Font Pairings for Taruno Wide

Test Taruno Wide Font Pairings Live

In Context

Taruno Wide Typography

Taruno Wide

Character Set

Type Scale

Taruno Wide for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Taruno Wide Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Taruno Wide

How Readable is Taruno Wide?

Taruno Wide: Comfort in Extended Reading

Taruno Wide Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Taruno Wide: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference