Specimen
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!
1 weight · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Aoboshi One
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
Low
0.613
stroke weight
20% of cap height
0.204
contrast
Low
0.035
letter width
Normal
1.024
Web embed
Use Aoboshi One on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aoboshi+One&display=swap');
/* Aoboshi One */
body {
font-family: 'Aoboshi One', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Aoboshi One
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Aoboshi One.
Details
- Family
- Aoboshi One
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Natsumi Matsuba
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 23, 2023
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- japanese, latin, latin-ext
About the Aoboshi One font
Aoboshi One is a serif typeface designed by Natsumi Matsuba, first released to Google Fonts on May 2023. It ships with 1 weight 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 low x-height at 61% 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 Aoboshi One against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Aoboshi One 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.