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!
5 weights · variable · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Baloo Thambi 2
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
0.769
stroke weight
13% of cap height
0.129
contrast
Low
0.184
letter width
Normal
0.932
Web embed
Use Baloo Thambi 2 on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Baloo+Thambi+2:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');
/* Baloo Thambi 2 */
body {
font-family: 'Baloo Thambi 2', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Baloo Thambi 2
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Ek Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- January 20, 2016
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext, tamil, vietnamese
About the Baloo Thambi 2 font
Baloo Thambi 2 is a display typeface designed by Ek Type, first released to Google Fonts on January 2016. It ships with 5 weights · 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 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 Baloo Thambi 2 against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Baloo Thambi 2 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.