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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!
2 weights · italic · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Amaranth
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
0.736
stroke weight
20% of cap height
0.195
contrast
Medium
0.311
letter width
Normal
0.922
Web embed
Use Amaranth on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Amaranth:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Amaranth */
body {
font-family: 'Amaranth', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Amaranth
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Gesine Todt
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 4, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Amaranth font
Amaranth is a sans-serif typeface designed by Gesine Todt, first released to Google Fonts on May 2011. It ships with 2 weights · italic 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 medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Amaranth against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Amaranth 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.