Van Arkel

Name: Van Arkel
Author: Sasha Pavljenko

Van Arkel commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Sasha Pavljenko60% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Van Arkel, including combinations with Areminiscentsmile, Arteks and Fervojo.

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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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Van Arkel Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Van Arkel Specimen

Van Arkel

Van Arkel is a display typeface by Sasha Pavljenko built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Van Arkel

VAN ARKEL

VAN ARKELTYPE

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Van Arkel— display typeface

Van ArkelBy Sasha Pavljenko

Van ArkelTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Van Arkel Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Van Arkel

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

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

When setting Van Arkel 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.

Van Arkel 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	Van Arkel delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Van Arkel italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Van Arkel bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Van Arkel typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Van Arkel typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Van Arkel'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Van Arkel in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Van Arkel', 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        'van-arkel': ['Van Arkel', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-van-arkel">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Van Arkel's Design

Sasha Pavljenko

Display

Open Source

Van Arkel font is an Art Deco display typeface featuring elegant vintage Cyrillic-supporting letterforms. Sophisticated and historical, this design channels 1920s-30s glamour for luxury hospitality, heritage brands, and cultural celebrations across multiple markets. The Art Deco construction with elegant proportions creates distinguished presence perfect for cocktail bars, boutique hotels, and jazz-age events. Designers seeking period-appropriate elegance will appreciate the refined character. Pair with clean serif body text.

Van Arkel comes from the work of Sasha Pavljenko. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Van Arkel features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Van Arkel is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Van Arkel

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Van Arkel

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Van Arkel within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 60). Van Arkel offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Sasha Pavljenko. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Van Arkel

Van Arkel represents a Graphic typeface, anchored in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith features Van Arkel in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Van Arkel

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Van Arkel 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Van Arkel

Van Arkel falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Van Arkel?

Van Arkel draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Van Arkel?

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Van Arkel: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Van Arkel Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Van Arkel

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Van Arkel. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Van Arkel in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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400

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700

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900

Internationalization

International Character 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 230 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

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.

Van Arkel 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 Van Arkel 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 'van-arkel': ['Van Arkel', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-van-arkel">Your text here</p>

Van Arkel

Best Ways to Use Van Arkel

Best Font Pairings for Van Arkel

Test Van Arkel Font Pairings Live

In Context

Van Arkel Typography

Van Arkel

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Van Arkel

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

Accessibility Overview for Van Arkel

How Legible is Van Arkel?

How Readable is Van Arkel?

Van Arkel: Comfort in Extended Reading

Van Arkel Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Van Arkel

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Van Arkel

Best Ways to Use Van Arkel

Best Font Pairings for Van Arkel

Test Van Arkel Font Pairings Live

In Context

Van Arkel Typography

Van Arkel

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Van Arkel

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

Accessibility Overview for Van Arkel

How Legible is Van Arkel?

How Readable is Van Arkel?

Van Arkel: Comfort in Extended Reading

Van Arkel Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Van Arkel

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference