What is the MVB Embarcadero® font?

MVB Embarcadero lies in a space between grotesque sans serifs and the vernacular signage lettering drawn by engineers. It’s a style that happens to convey credibility and forthrightness without pretense—it’s anti-style, actually. All of this makes for the most versatile of typefaces, capable of delivering any kind of message while staying out of the way. More… As is often the case with a type design that develops over several years, Embarcadero isn’t the realization of a specific concept. In the ’90s Mark van Bronkhorst began digitizing a blocky slab serif from the Victorian era, which was then set aside for many years. He later revisited the design, paring it down to its bare essentials, and as more time passed, it evolved from a grid-based outline to curves that echoed the rigid skeleton of the original. Eventually it became a complete family with all the readability requirements of a text sans serif, yet maintaining the subtle eccentricities of its inspiration. Functionally, the Embarcadero family is as adaptable as its design. The OpenType Pro set of 20 fonts contains two widths and five weights, each with italics, small caps, a full set of figures, bullets and arrows, and support for most Latin-based languages. In all, Embarcadero is suitable for headlines or text. And—thanks to its simple, square form—it’s ideal for type on screen too.

MVB Embarcadero® Font families

The MVB Embarcadero® includes the following font families:

• Embarcadero MVB Pro
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Med
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Med Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Bold
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Bold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro ExtraBold
• Embarcadero MVB Pro ExtraBold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Black
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Black Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Med
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Med Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Bold
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Bold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond ExtraBold
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond ExtraBold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Black
• Embarcadero MVB Pro Cond Black Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Reg
• Embarcadero MVB OSF
• Embarcadero MVB SC
• Embarcadero MVB Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Med
• Embarcadero MVB Med OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Med SC
• Embarcadero MVB Med Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Med Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Med Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Bold
• Embarcadero MVB Bold OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Bold SC
• Embarcadero MVB Bold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Bold Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Bold Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold OSF
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold SC
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB ExtraBold Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Black
• Embarcadero MVB Black OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Black SC
• Embarcadero MVB Black Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Black Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Black Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond
• Embarcadero MVB Cond OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Med Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Bold Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond ExtraBold Italic SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black SC
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black Italic
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black Italic OSF
• Embarcadero MVB Cond Black Italic SC

MVB Embarcadero® Preview

Here is a preview of how MVB Embarcadero® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.