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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!
4 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Arimo
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
0.768
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.160
contrast
Medium
0.291
letter width
Normal
0.932
Web embed
Use Arimo on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Arimo:wght@400;500;600;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Arimo */
body {
font-family: 'Arimo', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Free alternatives
Arimo is a free alternative to
Arimo can stand in for these commercial typefaces at a fraction of the price — licence-free.
Pairing
What goes with Arimo
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Arimo.
Same designers
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Details
- Family
- Arimo
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Steve Matteson
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 12, 2026
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Arimo font
Arimo is a sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, first released to Google Fonts on May 2026. It ships with 4 weights · italic · 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 77% 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 Arimo against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Arimo 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.