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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
7 weights · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Alan Sans
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.735
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.163
contrast
Low
0.169
letter width
Normal
0.998
Web embed
Use Alan Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alan+Sans:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap');
/* Alan Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Alan Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Alan Sans
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Alan Sans.
Details
- Family
- Alan Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Raphaël Ronot
- Added to Google Fonts
- September 17, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Alan Sans font
Alan Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Raphaël Ronot, first released to Google Fonts on September 2025. It ships with 7 weights · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 74% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Alan Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Alan Sans is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.