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Handgloves
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!
2 weights · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Alef
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
0.756
stroke weight
15% of cap height
0.147
contrast
Low
0.186
letter width
Normal
0.970
Web embed
Use Alef on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alef:wght@400;700&display=swap');
/* Alef */
body {
font-family: 'Alef', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Alef
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Alef.
Details
- Family
- Alef
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Hagilda, Mushon Zer-Aviv
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 21, 2013
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- hebrew, latin
About the Alef font
Alef is a sans-serif typeface designed by Hagilda and Mushon Zer-Aviv, first released to Google Fonts on May 2013. It ships with 2 weights 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 76% 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 Alef against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Alef 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.