Castoro
Tiro Typeworks · John Hudson
serifhumanist serifitalic
A free, open-source humanist text serif by John Hudson, available in four weights with italics and as variable fonts.
About
Designed by John Hudson with assistant designers Paul Hanslow and Kaja Słojewska, Castoro offers eight static styles spanning Regular to Bold with matching italics, plus two variable font files covering the weight axis in roman and italic. The character set extends to 904 glyphs, providing broad Latin Extended coverage for multilingual text work. Sources are publicly available on GitHub under Tiro Typeworks.
Classification
Castoro presents warm, pen-influenced letterforms typical of humanist serif design, suited to extended text setting across a range of weights from Regular to Bold.
Weights
RegularMediumSemiboldBold
Family
Castoro VF
Languages
Latin Extended
Tags
humanistseriftextfreevariableopen-sourcebooklatin-extended