Arlen
Arlen
Arlen

Arlen

Friendly 80s Font Family

Friendly 80s Font Family

Arlen is a friendly sans serif type family, inspired by hand-painted signs and 80s font aesthetics. Arlen is cheerful, irreverent, and full of charm; it feels at home in a variety of text sizes and features high contrast, flaring stems, and highly dynamic letterforms. Arlen exudes positivity and adapts well to both digital and print mediums. With both narrow and wide font styles, Arlen is perfect for projects ranging from advertising and editorial design to social media and branding. Whether you’re going for bold statements or subtle sophistication, Arlen’s friendly and dynamic letterforms provide the perfect solution for every project.

Arlen is a friendly sans serif type family, inspired by hand-painted signs and 80s font aesthetics. Arlen is cheerful, irreverent, and full of charm; it feels at home in a variety of text sizes and features high contrast, flaring stems, and highly dynamic letterforms. Arlen exudes positivity and adapts well to both digital and print mediums. With both narrow and wide font styles, Arlen is perfect for projects ranging from advertising and editorial design to social media and branding. Whether you’re going for bold statements or subtle sophistication, Arlen’s friendly and dynamic letterforms provide the perfect solution for every project.

Arlen is a friendly sans serif type family, inspired by hand-painted signs and 80s font aesthetics. Arlen is cheerful, irreverent, and full of charm; it feels at home in a variety of text sizes and features high contrast, flaring stems, and highly dynamic letterforms. Arlen exudes positivity and adapts well to both digital and print mediums. With both narrow and wide font styles, Arlen is perfect for projects ranging from advertising and editorial design to social media and branding. Whether you’re going for bold statements or subtle sophistication, Arlen’s friendly and dynamic letterforms provide the perfect solution for every project.

With 36 styles and two variable axes (Weight and Width) Arlen offers broad design flexibility. Each font style includes 860 characters, supporting most Latin-based languages and packed with alternate glyphs, ligatures, and symbols. Several characters come in both thin and bold forms, accessible via stylistic sets, making it easy to fine-tune tone and texture. Arlen is a versatile display font family that breaks free from conventions and offers a width variable font to meet diverse design needs. Arlen is built to handle large-scale design systems and diverse layouts while keeping its playful edge.

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Font Information

Font Family

Tight Light

Tight Light

Tight Regular

Tight Regular

Tight SmBold

Tight SmBold

Tight Bold

Tight Bold

Tight Black

Tight Black

Tight Heavy

Tight Heavy

Narrow Light

Narrow Light

Narrow Regular

Narrow Regular

Narrow SmBold

Narrow SmBold

Narrow Bold

Narrow Bold

Narrow Black

Narrow Black

Narrow Heavy

Narrow Heavy

Standard Light

Standard Light

Standard Regular

Standard Regular

Standard SmBold

Standard SmBold

Standard Bold

Standard Bold

Standard Black

Standard Black

Standard Heavy

Standard Heavy

Relaxed Light

Relaxed Light

Relaxed Regular

Relaxed Regular

Relaxed SmBold

Relaxed SmBold

Relaxed Bold

Relaxed Bold

Relaxed Black

Relaxed Black

Relaxed Heavy

Relaxed Heavy

Expanded Light

Expanded Light

Expanded Regular

Expanded Regular

Expanded SmBold

Expanded SmBold

Expanded Bold

Expanded Bold

Expanded Black

Expanded Black

Expanded Heavy

Expanded Heavy

Wide Light

Wide Light

Wide Regular

Wide Regular

Wide SmBold

Wide SmBold

Wide Bold

Wide Bold

Wide Black

Wide Black

Wide Heavy

Wide Heavy

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Meet Arlen, a funky, variable sans serif type family in 36 styles. Inspired by 20th-century hand-painted signs and the visual culture of the 1980s, Arlen adds a little extra flair to this already charismatic mix. Arlen is a display font that can be freely used for larger bodies of text. Among its most prominent visual features are high contrast, flaring stems, and dynamic letterforms. With 36 styles on board, Arlen includes both narrow and wide font styles, as well as a Weight and Width variable font that adapts to your design needs.

With 860 characters in each font, Arlen supports most Latin-based languages and offers a wide range of extra characters, symbols, alternate glyphs, ligatures, and punctuation marks. Further expanding its scope of applications, some letters and characters come in two versions: thin and bold, which can be easily alternated using a corresponding stylistic set.

Arlen is a cheerful friendly font that conveys kindness, good cheer, and positive vibes. It feels right at home in both digital and print mediums. Whether used in advertising, editorial design, social media, web design, packaging, or personal design projects, Arlen’s versatility shines. With versatility at its heart, Arlen is the perfect typeface for large design systems that require multiple styles for typesetting.

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Technical Info
Technical Info
Supported Languages
Supported Languages
Supported Languages
OpenType Features
OpenType Features
OpenType Features

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Evgeny Tantsurin
PR Ostale Informacione
Tehnologije Beograd

1B Matice Srpske
Belgrade, Serbia
11160

© Groteskly Yours Studio

2025

Evgeny Tantsurin
PR Ostale Informacione
Tehnologije Beograd

1B Matice Srpske
Belgrade, Serbia
11160

© Groteskly Yours Studio

2025