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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!
1 weight · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Arbutus
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
0.740
stroke weight
32% of cap height
0.324
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Expanded
1.348
Web embed
Use Arbutus on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Arbutus&display=swap');
/* Arbutus */
body {
font-family: 'Arbutus', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- Arbutus
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Karolina Lach
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 7, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Arbutus font
Arbutus is a serif typeface designed by Karolina Lach, first released to Google Fonts on December 2011. 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 medium x-height at 74% of the cap height, expanded 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 Arbutus against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Arbutus 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.